Hope Struggles with a Birthday
When Alzheimer’s exfoliates the brain, how can we help our loved ones celebrate birthdays – without treating them like children?
When Alzheimer’s exfoliates the brain, how can we help our loved ones celebrate birthdays – without treating them like children?
Something special happens when I begin to birth a book. I’m not sure if I am unique in this. Perhaps other writers will comment and let me know if I’m weird or somewhat normal. Because one of my core values is life-long learning, I love to initiate research. So with the new idea, I start …
Especially at Christmas, caregivers and families feel the sting of Alzheimer’s and dementia. We hang ornaments and remember past Decembers when our loved ones decorated the tree, sang Christmas carols and laughed while opening presents. Smells from the kitchen spike memories of Christmas cookies, cinnamon and nutmeg, that special family recipe for peppernuts. Yet now …
What is it about publishing a book that is so exciting? Is it the booksignings and the speaking events or is it something much deeper?
Even when her brain is infected with Alzheimer’s plaque, Mom continues to nurture. This time, I’m grateful for a bossy Mom.
How can a writer celebrate the end of a trilogy? With a little help from her friends.
The kindness of a weekend in Denver brings hope that Alzheimer’s does not have to steal from every family.
What will heaven look like? Will it be so beautiful, we’ll need a couple thousand years to grow used to it?
Where can we find confidence within the battery of Alzheimer’s Disease? In the one place it’s always been – God’s heart.
Even within the early stages of dementia, one fact remains, God will never leave you, never abandon you, never forsake.