Posted 5-20-19 “You know what’s wrong with ‘Merica???”. (The 1600+ subscribers to the cornbread table all roll eyes their in unison and surf Oprah instead….) Answer: Fear! Fear!! Fear!!! As the enigmatic president Roosevelt said in his 1932 speech: “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have…
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The Paradox of Joy
Posted 5-16-19 Yesterday, not 48 hours after scheduling our initial hospice visit for my mom, she did the unthinkable: she had a great day!! The best in 2 months… at least. The false-hope-screaming-kind-of good day. She said at least 20 complete, intelligible sentences, some 19.5 more than she has said the last 2 months. At…
Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
Posted 4-30-19 The shark-infested tidewaters receded yet again and all there is now are a few quiet clownfish, a happy but shy school of neon tetras and an occasional grumpy pair of bettas bickering over who gets the last saltwater Ho-Ho at the ole memory unit. (Oh, and don’t get me on a rant about…
A 5280-Foot-Tall Wall
Posted 4-29-19 “Hitting the Wall” can mean many things in life: To the Cardinals over the weekend, it is a way for a young player to get hurt. To a runner it can mean a metaphorical wall that you run into, often at about mile 20-22, where you feel like you can no longer run….
Watch Your Diet, Caregiver
Posted 4-20-19 Just a quick caregiver thought this holiday weekend: Be careful to watch your entertainment diet. I love reading and contributing to caregiver forums, studying cures and treatments and serving up digital cornbread for you. I really do. It helps me vent. It gives me a forum to cry, safely. It helps me see…
Team
Posted 4-15-19 Happy Tax Day, all. I hope you caught my “sweet” tax day early post from a couple days ago. If not, here it is: Link. I was involved (personally) in team sports the first 18 years of life in one way or another. I was probably brought in utero to sporting events that…
“O Holy Nights” to Come
Posted 4-10-19 Yes, I’m THAT guy. I am still listening to Christmas music on April 10th. My only wish is that Easter music was so widely created. (I do love several traditional Easter songs too, such as “He’s Alive”, “Because He Lives” and “He Arose” to name a few). It is amazing and it brings…
Interview With a Jayhawker
Posted late on 3-25-19 Nice trip down to see mom tonight. She is still tired…very tired…but happy and generally pretty darn good. She ate well in front of me with my stepdad feeding her, then we hung out for a while. She isn’t saying a lot these days, but on reflection I really feel like…
First Day of Spring
Posted 3-20-19 Welcome to Spring! It will be delightful to escape the blue winter and replace it with pastels and bees…ok, with pastels. We will be back today from vacation and I just wanted to make a quick point or two about “coming down from the mountain”. (Note: Cliche alert!!) In the words of Jeanne…
Sweet 17 Today
Posted 3/6/19 When mom first started experiencing more extreme (at the time) symptoms, I was agast. I had never seen an inflicted mom hunting and gathering papers, crayons, jewelry, and pickles in a purse, and I had no point of reference. I had never witnessed the panic walks and the deer in the headlights stares…