1. Spend time together
2. Do what brings you joy
3. Laugh often
4. Eat ice cream
5. Hold hands
6. Paint fingernails
7. Massage tight shoulders
8. Tweeze brows
9. Go shopping
10. Walk…and walk
11. Sing familiar songs
12. Play music
13. Do large puzzles together
14. Exercise the body, it’s good for the mind
15. Don’t correct.. re-direct instead
16. Look for signs of boredom (twisting hair, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hope’
Mem….ory Matters
Posted in Sweet September, health & life, summer 09, tagged alzheimer's, caregivers, hope, memories on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Elderly Rock Bands
Posted in Sweet September, health & life, words of wisdom...humor, tagged hope, humor, love on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My grandson has learned the word “elderly” in school this week. And so I said, “what does that really mean? ” He said, “you know older people in a rock band.” I laughed and so we used the word elderly many times during the day. Each time I winked at him until he finally said, [...]
sideline of catastrophy
Posted in Sweet September, tagged catastrophy, dark chocolate, hope, hormones, knitting, Neurology, news, politics on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it is true. I am back from Doc hormone and the car wash. Seems I don’t need progesterone after all even if I have those receptors floating around somewhere in my body? I do feel great especially after the dark chocolate almonds. They are the sinful food of the day. Any how I also got my much dreaded flu [...]
hope and traffic in phoenix
Posted in July postings, tagged hope, journalism, leaking tears, new york times magazine, oxygen, phoenix, traffic on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the traffic was beyond awful. And we even have a new freeway just east of me. But everyone was doing about 45 or 50 on the freeway. Finally , I got ahead and saw it was a semi hogging all three lanes of traffic. No wonder know one could safely get by. They even [...]
