Who’s an errand boy? Who isn’t? That’s how things get done, doing on errands. What else is there, hiring someone to do errands? But there are times it makes sense.
CARE ENOUGH TO NOT TURN YOUR BACK ON OTHERS
July 31, 2021 by
When I had to care enough to do things caregivers do, I used to joke, “It’s easier if you don’t care.” It was funny back then because I did things caregivers didn’t do and it earned me the title of ‘Heroic Caregiver.’ That was a name given with certain trepidations because heroic caregivers are one […]
AGING EXPERTS PLAN FOR OLD AGE
May 3, 2021 by
Aging experts come in all shapes and sizes. And ages. They don’t need to be a hundred years old to be an aging expert. Or a PhD Gerontologist.
CAREGIVER: IT MATTERS MORE IF YOU CARE
October 19, 2019 by
My father in law needed a caregiver when he moved from California to Oregon. Instead of home care, he went to an assisted living home. To mixed results.
CAREGIVING EXCERPT FROM WORK IN PROGRESS
March 22, 2019 by
My caregiving days ended the morning I came downstairs and found Ken laying still in his hospital bed. Very still. I was suspicious. A large red circle nearly two feet in diameter stained the bedspread drawn up to his chin. What. The. F?
BOOMER SON IN FOREVER YOUNG ENGLAND
December 12, 2012 by
News from England arrived late. It touched home. The story is pretty straight forward in the paper. “A Cambridge man charged with two attempted murders in a vicious street brawl in the city centre appeared in court yesterday. Karl Eldin, 18, from Glebe Road, denied attempting to murder Alexander Lloyd and Ian Watters outside the […]
