Tag: family
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When Life Butts In
I wrote this piece recently for a writing assignment dealing with setting. It’s a reflection on a moment in time about eight years ago. Outside the sliding glass door of our lower-level family room, the snow is quietly falling, and I am mesmerized. My husband and I have lived in this home at the top…
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Life After Alzheimer’s – It’s a Beach
September 10, 2025 It has now been four and a half months since Jim passed. I cried for the first time two weeks ago. I’m not sure why. Grief has its own timetable. Yes, life continues after you walk your loved one to death’s door. You say your goodbye and then what? The feeling is…
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Death is in my house.
I can feel it. Sometimes it stops me short and I can’t breathe. Like now. He is no longer drinking much water. Just enough to take his pills. He hasn’t eaten in a month. And yet, he talks to me. Yesterday he said, “Who wants to go in the pool?” I told him the water…
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Is he, or is he not dying? Yes.
THIS IS REALITY I teeter back and forth about how and when to start letting go. He did not qualify for hospice after the in-home evaluation a month ago. They said he was close, but they needed to see more indicators to put him over the edge. So, he needs to get worse in order…
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My Four-Day Sick-Out
This post was written somewhere at the end of summer, 2024. I never got around to sharing it, but I felt it had merit and might be relatable to some. It has been a sick week. Literally. I started feeling the tightness in my chest on Tuesday, which I ignored, thinking I had breathed in…
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A Tribute to a Remarkable Woman
When I think of the perfect timing of God, and the gifts He drops divinely in our laps, I think of Betty. She came into my life 28 years ago. I was pregnant with her son’s child. He and I were not married but planned to be. Until she stopped me in my tracks. “You…
The Joy of Rambling 