Posted 11/23/20 Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. –Mark 11:23 Happy Monday, to all! Thanksgiving week is here and we all have reasons to…
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Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 250: Majesty of the Heavens
Posted 11/17/2020 “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was,because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.” –Revelation 11:17 “Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.” – Proverbs 11:17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 48: The One With a Pandemic in the Applegate House
Posted 4/30/20 Hi all! Happy 48th day of being “in the hole”, Shawshank-style…a.k.a. in lock down from getting to visit loved ones in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. You may be plus or minus a little in the number of days, but you certainly feel the same pain. What particularly saddens me is the…
Riders on the Storm
Posted May Day, 2019 I won’t say that we were professional storm chasers growing up, but the Applegate household had an semi-unintuitive fascination with tornadoes. We were that family. We were prepared to jump in our house’s crawlspace, accessible through the garage floor, or equally so to zoom east just ahead of the twister to…
Spring Dreaming
Posted 4-16-19 “I need a break!” Eleven-year-old Brenda said, sighing as she scooped another shovel of poo into the pile the same way she did every stinking Saturday while her friends…uhhh…did the same thing at their farm home. “Cows are milked, the stupid horse is fed, the fence and gate are checked, the dishes are…
Rub Some Dirt on It!
Posted 4-8-19 According to the Detroit Free Press, rubbing dirt on wounds was first found in literature dating back…wait for it…to 3,000 BC! The article points out that according to the Biodesign Institute, that’s (3,000 BC) when “clay was listed in the ancient tablets of Nippur as a wound-healing medicament.” The institute also said that…
Good Days: Past and Present
Posted 3-26-19 So much to write, such little time. 🙁 I have at least 10 articles in the works, but I also desperately need brain beauty sleep to wash my brain of worthless beta-amyloid plaques. Mom is doing much better again today. Peppy and genuinely pretty happy. She was a tad anxious, more than normal….but…