Tag: love
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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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I’ve never been here before
People ask me how I’m doing. Well, I’m tired. My Fitbit tells me I got 8 hours and 10 minutes of sleep, and my sleep score was 83, which is really good for me. And yet, I feel like I drank myself to sleep and have a wicked hangover this morning. Since I quit drinking…
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A Moment In The Sun
Ode To Charlie It’s a small pool, but it’s lovely. It’s a fading sun but it warms me still. I sit in my small, gray, plastic, surprisingly comfortable chair and watch the blue water shimmer and swirl, shimmer and swirl. It creates its own rhythm in time with the intake and return valves that work…
The Joy of Rambling 