Caregiving
How to Support Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month
From walks to conversations to prayer groups, raising awareness of this deadly disease
The Unexpected Birthday Party
My grandmother, whom everyone called Mom, sat hunched in a kitchen chair, the lump on her back fr ...
The Ministry of the Cookie Lady
My wife, Sandra, and I were caring for Florence, my mother-in-law. I was feeling helpless and fru ...
What If . . . ?
“What if Mike and I get into an accident?” I asked my friend Julie over the phone. ...
Exercising Our Faith
From the spot at the pulleys at my physical therapy facility, I watched transfixed as the woman m ...
The Wall
There was a wall between my father-in-law, Dale, and me. A former Army officer, Dale was used to ...
Final Jeopardy
My mother, her body ravaged by pancreatic cancer, wanted to come home to die. Instead of a steril ...
5 Benefits of Being a Professional Caregiver
A career as a caregiver can be richly rewarding in ways you might not expect.
In God’s Hands
It was 3:00 pm, and I was anxious. The doctor still hadn’t sent an important prescription to th ...
Waiting for His Voice
Radiation hadn’t helped. Before the surgeon removed the cancer in Dad’s throat, the family st ...
Pawprints All Over Our Hearts
My husband Jerry’s ability to communicate gradually diminished as his dementia progressed. It b ...
Her World
The heat of her house? Stifling. The dust? Impenetrable. The creaking and groaning of floors? A t ...
New Realities
Because we lived so far apart, Mom and I only saw each other every few months. She had moved into ...
Inspirational QUOTES
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If you risk failure, then you also risk success.
