May 2015
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….and I think they are ugly. It’s the year for the cicada in Kansas City. I’ve seen them on the trail behind our house but I just assumed they would not make it any further Northwest *significant eye roll. This morning I found them hanging around on the lily leaves…ugh…time to go back deep into Read more
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Usually when I attend the Icehouse Auction on Friday nights I find something that I want to bid on. My new juicer which appears to be almost never used. or these 4 Yankee candles which are brand new and I got for the fraction of the retail price. But nothing prepared me for the chalk Read more
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We learn something from everything we do and have done from birth. Most of us don’t learn from other people’s mistakes…because details of everyone’s circumstances are different? Because what works for one person may not work for someone else? Because interpretation of right and wrong, good and bad are different for each person? Challenges are Read more
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I lived for 30 years on a gravel road…uh huh..for you big city folk…yes, we had running water and indoor plumbing. Actually Iowa has a lot of gravel roads and there are very few things positive about that fact other than during ice storms – they are the last to get slick; but, when they Read more
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For the last few weeks, I haven’t been able to get my shirts off over my head. I can barely get my arm up there without shoulder pain and then I don’t have the strength to pull it off….so he helps. I remember the days when he would have walked over to my side of the Read more
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I was reading blogs on my WordPress “reader” tonight…feeling a sense of loss. I’m looking for Xanga type blogs with people I can connect with…I don’t want to read blogs from teenagers or 20’s or 30’s – I’m not interested right now in reading short stories or books, I don’t want the negativity of politics Read more
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https://welcometodementialand.wordpress.com/ I have shared a couple of these blogs on my page recently. Actually I can’t remember now how I found her wordpress page…she has a wonderful take on dementia and alzheimers and should be a regular read for anyone who is living with someone with the disease. I have a 6 degrees of separation Read more
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Originally posted on When Dementia Knocks: Flashback. I am in the 5th grade at Mulberry Elementary School. There is a girl in my class who I will call Mindy. Mindy has special needs. She’s very sweet but doesn’t quite fit in as hard as she tries. She’s obsessed with Iowa Hawkeye football and never misses… Read more
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Laying in bed this morning, listening to the morning floor creaks and his morning habits, I felt the need to delve into why he likes to wake up and immediately have both feet on the floor; and how I like to lay there and move my legs around the disheveled sheets searching for a Read more
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I’m not exactly sure where I’ve drawn from to make it between March 9 to June 9….kidney cancer diagnosis day to scheduled surgery day. I’ve had two “on the ledge” days where I had to lean on someone else to make it through the agonizing fear and the sobs….and I will say the extra special Read more
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