The pain is so strong, but always buried deep. It’s not like being cut with a knife. It’s like feeling my soul and spirit slowly being fed into a meat grinder. I feel trapped, but escape is not an option. Love makes me stay despite the pain. My mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and her short-term […]
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Posted in Change & Growth on Mar 21st, 2008
Hay fever season just hit me like a ton of bricks. Sneezing, itchy eyes, runny nose — ah, the fun of it all. I looked up the probable cause for hay fever in Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life. Hay believes all illness has roots in how we view ourselves and the world, […]
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Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Feb 24th, 2008
It’s just a coffee maker. It’s not a complicated piece of technology. And yet for my mother, some days it might as well be a Rubik’s cube. Early stages of Alzheimer’s or senility make it so. I could make the coffee for her, and for me on the rare days I drink it, but the […]
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