A Sneaky Tactic or Something Else?

A Sneaky Tactic or Something Else?

I don’t know where people go when they travel Dementia Road. I traveled that road with my mom for seven years and most of the time I wasn’t sure where it was headed other than off a cliff. I now think that road exists in an in-between world. Its main travelers seem to...
SNACKING ON PEACE

SNACKING ON PEACE

Are you one of those people who likes to cook and is good at it and who eats three meals a day on a regular schedule? I wish I were like you. But, I’m not. I’m a snacker. I’ve written here before that one of my favorite forms of procrastination is to look in the...
LAW AND ORDER

LAW AND ORDER

True story. As a young Assistant Attorney General I inherited a big case our office had brought against a large company. But it was a sure loser. Worse, the company had a team of pit bull attorneys defending it. Yet, my boss still wanted me to litigate it. And so, on...
HACK SAW SPIRITUALITY

HACK SAW SPIRITUALITY

Whenever we think we have to do something, it is a grievance. We are at war with what is… A few weeks ago I was in the yard surrounded by trees. The thing about trees is that as they grow they shed branches like we shed hair. We brush our hair and hair falls out. In...
A STRANGE AND CURIOUS THING

A STRANGE AND CURIOUS THING

My mom had dementia and needed A LOT of assistance. So she lived in a lovely “memory care” place with lovely caregivers. But in a strange twist of magic, Mom and the other memory care residents somehow became puppies. “Hiiiiiiiiiii,” their caregivers would say to them...