Letter To You, From Your Pain
Dear Human Being, Thank you for allowing me as your guest. I see you suffer when I’m in your house of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. My visit …
Topic: Emotional Support
Turn Regret into Deeper Self-Knowledge
All of us have felt embarrassed, uneasy and even some sense of shame about the way we handled ourselves in a particular situation or relationship. This sense …
Affairs, Betrayals, Infidelities. Part One
These are all dirty words to the “victims” and not so healthy for the perpetrators. Please withhold judgment until you have read this and thought about it. …
Have you Evolved Today?
Too many years of the rhythm of the school year and it is ingrained in me to see September as sort of an interim start of a new year, at least as far as most …
Aging, Don’t Let Them Wait
My grandmother used to say, “Old age stinks.” She said it until she passed at 98. For her, there were no Golden Years. She just sat until her time came. We …
Social Isolation in the Elderly
There are many wonderful advantages of being over 50: Retirement on the horizon. Less responsibility for young children-delightful but exhausting and more. As …
Sex-ism in Elder Care: The Old Never Bothered Me, Anyway
Americans have a lot of interesting cultural quirks regarding the elderly; not the least of which is a tendency to write and think about ‘the …
Giving Up the Car Keys
Creative and Humorous Interventions I speak to community groups regularly to help advance Alzheimer’s awareness and lend support to families in crisis. When …
Aging Hopefully
At 50, I tend to click on articles about growing older gracefully, or not so gracefully. Some of them are worthy of the word ‘viral’ and some of …
Mother’s Day with Aging Parents
Mother’s day is set aside each year in order to celebrate all that encompasses being a mother to her child(ren). A celebration that, if your mother is able …