Happy Thanksgiving
The six weeks of absence here has been good for me. I've stopped crying. I'm back at work on research I started years ago. I'm reading poetry and writing some. I'm going out, and not just to the...
View ArticleHim and Me
We're at the game table I give him a domino He puts it in his mouth I started to write my mouth He puts it in my mouth.
View Article80 year old dives for Alzheimer's & a poem from 2003
I thought my kids were nuts when they jumped into Lake Washington's 40 degree water on New Year's Day, but look at this. Maybe when I'm 80 I'll jump in too. Hmmm ... Don't bet on it.
View ArticleLong-Term Health Care
Although I've been in favor of Dennis Kucinich's single-payer health-care plan, I admire his decision to go forward with the president. Abe couldn't get long-term health-care insurance due to...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month, Write-A-Poem-A-Day Challenge
Perhaps you're writing your own poems or reading someone else's. You can share them in the comment space below. Here's mine for tomorrow April 4th.
View Articletoday's nursing home visit, a few haiku
National Poetry Month Write-A-Poem-A-Day Challenge NAPOWRMO#7 Wed. April 7, 2010 11am
View ArticleNAPOWRMO #13 ~ In the tv room, after lunch, before his afternoon nap
National Poetry Month Write-A-Poem-A-Day Challenge
View ArticlePenny Harvest Youth Philanthropy Summit
I attended the Penny Harvest Youth Philanthropy Summit yesterday at the Seattle Center. Caregiving may keep me from many events, but no way was I going to miss this. My granddaughter's on the youth...
View ArticleAbe Didn't Call Me Back ~ #27 for the National Poetry Month...
In my dream last night Abe didn't call me back. A whole weekend went by with no word. When I awaken he's in a nursing home, dead; yet, not dead. Other sick people surround him. Some scream for their...
View ArticleDO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had...
View ArticleOn Poetry, Peace, & How Long Has He Had Alzheimer's?
Every time I'm asked, as I was today: "How long has Abe had Alzheimer's?" I say about a decade; but I can't pinpoint it. Around 2001 maybe, after his hip surgery, when he was vulnerable and couldn't...
View ArticleHusband
I wish you'd change your ways just for today so we could speak to each other's ear
View ArticleAbe update – I hate to write this post
Abe's condition has been deteriorating for the past few weeks. I've signed papers for hospice care. He has pneumonia and congestive heart failure. As of a few minutes ago, his heart rate was as high as...
View ArticleAbe update - I hate to write this post
Abe's condition has been deteriorating for the past few weeks. I've signed papers for hospice care. He has pneumonia and congestive heart failure. As of a few minutes ago, his heart rate was as high as...
View ArticleAbe died
Tues June 15th, a day after his 82nd birthday. We buried him the next day and are now sitting shiva.
View ArticleAbe died
Tues June 15th, a day after his 82nd birthday. We buried him the next day and are now sitting shiva.
View ArticleI can get mad at him again
I don't have to go to the nursing home anymore. I don't even have to think about going. Not today, not tomorrow. Not next week. And I can get mad at him again. Isn't that an odd thing to be thinking? I...
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