My family has been dealing with my daddy’s illnesses for some time now. He’s been prone to kidney infections and the winter blahs for the past five winters. This year …
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My family has been dealing with my daddy’s illnesses for some time now. He’s been prone to kidney infections and the winter blahs for the past five winters. This year …
Continue ReadingNo one gets out alive. So it’s a particularly rich irony that so many people insist on denying death, planning for it, or even mentioning it. But that’s a topic …
Continue ReadingIt was a very long day yesterday. Daddy had been sick for a few days and even though I wanted to take him to the doctor days earlier, he and …
Continue ReadingThe day of Thanksgiving I came down with a bad head cold and a queasy stomach. It was a long bout with that bug and I’m still getting over some …
Continue ReadingMany of the nation’s 40 million family caregivers are caught in a bind made worse by state policies requiring them to work a number of hours in paid jobs every …
Continue ReadingMy mama often complains that my daddy spends too much time watching television. He loves sports and those crazy judge shows along with James Garner in Rockford Files. He tries …
Continue ReadingThe stories of your family and the people you come from are locked away in your elders’ minds. The holiday season is the perfect time to ask them, “Who am …
Continue ReadingYesterday my BFF and I started out for town to do the last of our Christmas Shopping. I got a little more than I bargained for. Lesson learned — watch …
Continue ReadingWhen the sun fails to shine through the clouds and the weather turns cold a lot of us get a little blue. My daddy is one who hates the winter. …
Continue ReadingThe fervor sets in around the middle of October, when pumpkins appear, seeming to beg to be carved into jack-o-lanterns and homeowners give in to the newish tradition of putting …
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