Hello guyz, I hope your New Year has started out as relaxing and healthy as possible. Me, it was cool but I’m writing to need to vent. As you might’ve heard, here around Boston we’ve had 2-3 days of on and off snowstorms, totaling where I live to about 10″.
Through a longtime friend who is [...]
Happy Holidays to everybody, I hope everyone is perhaps having the gift of having a little time for themselves, amidst all the caregiving that we are being responsible for. The community college at which I work is closed this week between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
And I am making it a “time-out” period for [...]
Hi, I felt we had a T-Day experience yesterday that fits the bill well. My mom’s house is like a waystation for the Holidays, with us and then cousins and other relatives coming and going and telephoning. Well inthe evening, before I was getting ready to leave, I remembered that I’d had it in my [...]
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I’ve returned to higher ed after 25 years. I am in my first course, Strategic Human Resources Management, in my grad program at UMass/Boston — Gerontology with Aging Services Management Track. My next big paper I’m starting to write is going to focus on volunteerism in the Salvation Army. They have a lot of elderly [...]
Ugh. Today was one of those days I felt that I was going to implode. The week started off well — I pulled off a coup and, despite a nor’reaster here in Boston, I really did my best to take Mom out for dinner for her birthday, surprised her with a certificate to her favorite [...]
Happy Labor Day, Everybody. I know that sounds twisted…all most of us ever do is “labor” — so I mean that I hope that everyone saved some time for themselves to have a block of space of peace and serenity, even mentally, sometime today. I think I’m like a lot of people that Labor Day [...]
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You know how it looked when Lucy Ricardo tried to make pizza, or when you tried to imitate your parents doing it as a kid — you’d beat, roll, and run over the dough, tearing it apart and making a mess? I feel, particularly today, like I’m the dough and everybody and my responsibilities to [...]
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Hi, Everybody. I wanted to post about a great new caregiving support book that I picked up at Barnes & Noble. I don’t think I’ve posted about it before…but I can’t remember my name some days!
It’s a large softcover thing entitled “The Everything Guide to Caring for Aging Parents: Reassuring [...]
Hey Guyz, sorry it’s been so long since I could repost. I hope everybody’s doing ok and finding some time also for their own health and batteries-recharging. I’m applying for an all-online graduate degree program in — get this, am I a glutton for punishment, or what — Gerontology, with Management of Aging [...]
We need to find moments to laugh…and to share that..with each other. I have this aunt whom I call my “college aunt,” because when I was going nuts applying for undergrad school many years back, her kids (my cousins) were already on their way and she provided me loads of advice and support — always did, [...]
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