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  1. Gary

    Elders Making Music – Link

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    February 27, 2011
    Hey Everybody, hoping everyone and their loved ones are doing ok. I wanted to share a possibly helpful link, that some of you may already know about, from the main textbook in my grad course this Spring Term at UMass/Boston, “Social Aspects of Aging.” The test is “Aging, the Individual,...
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    Is Sunday Early A.M. A Safe Time For You, Too?

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    August 29, 2010
    Hi, Everybody.  I wanna share with everybody my condolences, too, over one of our family here’s loss of a parent that I see posted.  I have so much respect and sympathy for our caregivers who have made it to that point — nobody wants to be there, and it’s about...
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  4. Gary

    Trying to Be So Many Things..

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    July 25, 2010
    Hi Denise and Everybody, I apologize for not having been able to update sooner, with a billion busy things that’ve been going on this late spring and summer.  I hope today is a little bit better of a “today” for everybody, care givers and care experiencers alike, compared with everybody’s...
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  5. Gary

    How Long Did It Take You?

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    May 16, 2010
    Hey Everybody.  Hoping everyone, who celebrated Mom’s Day if applicable, had as nice a one as possible for you.  I’m kicking back after having seen the one and only legendary Diana Ross in Boston last night — what a class act!  It was my “gift” to myself after my first...
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  6. Gary

    Happy Mothers’ Caregivers Day

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    May 9, 2010
    Hey guyz, wishing everyone not only a Happy Mother’s Day, but a Happy day also for caregivers of moms or maternal loved ones who worked to make everything as right as possible for their moms today, or who couldn’t but were there in spirit. I took my mom out to...
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  7. Gary

    Lost It — Over Snow :-o

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    January 3, 2010
    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″....
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  8. Gary

    This Is *My* Week

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    December 30, 2009
    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...
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  9. Gary

    Memories Come Alive on Thanksgiving for Us

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    November 28, 2009
    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...
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  10. Gary

    Back to School

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    October 24, 2009
    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...
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  11. Gary

    Scattered…and Overwhelmed

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    October 23, 2009
    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...
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  12. Gary

    Fall…This Time A New Season With A New Start?

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    September 7, 2009
    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...
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  14. Gary

    New Caregiving Book

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    July 2, 2009
    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:...
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    Catchin’ Up!

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    June 7, 2009
    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...
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  16. Gary

    Mum Humor..

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    May 13, 2009
    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...
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  17. Gary

    Happy Mums’ Day!

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    May 10, 2009
    Hey Everybody, you my brothers and sisters in caregiving are all my heroes — and today, meanwhile, I wanted to wish a well-deserved Happy Mothers Day to all of you who are moms yourselves, and/or taking care of moms — because it is Your Day, you deserve to own it,...
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    “Reflections”

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    May 1, 2009
    Hi, Everybody.  Sorry I’ve been away a few days.  I hope everything with all of you and the site updates have been going as well as can be.  I’m just sitting here with a cup of hot peppermint tea and my feet up typing — like a slob — and...
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  19. Gary

    When I’m Sick At The Same Time…

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    April 19, 2009
    I haven’t telephoned with my mom in a couple of days.  Not because I’m a bad son or person, or selfish — but I’m sick a lot, too.  Abdominal adhesion flare-ups, besides IBS and colitis, continue to be a chronic, very painful and disruptive health problem for me that wreaks...
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  20. Gary

    Happy Easter!

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    April 12, 2009
    Image via Wikipedia Hello, today I wanted to remember all of us and wish everybody celebrating Easter that they and their caregivers or caregiven have as special and as tranquil a holiday as is possible. And for those here of us who do not celebrate Easter, still I wish for...
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  21. Gary

    Sad and Angry

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    March 20, 2009
    Today, I’m feeling sad and angry. My late brother, my only sibling who was 10 years my senior, would’ve been 57-years-old today. It’s hard for one to reflect on being 15 years “older” than his late sibling was when he died. And this was so much crap at work, and...
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  22. Gary

    Unwinding and Refocusing

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    March 16, 2009
    The last few days have given me a chance to unwind, refocus on my goals, and to get a little bit of bigger-picture insight into my mom caregiver role. Friday evening, I dined out with a high school-era friend and current education work colleage, whose family is going through this,...
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