Please Breathe
For my inaugural post, GreyHawk suggested I submit the following piece I wrote before we married.As many of you know, "Mumsie" -- my mother -- has late-stage Alzheimer's. As with most dementias, her's...
View ArticleThe Giving of Thanks (a "Little Woo" Tale)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!Some of you know my husband GreyHawk, he of "The Woo Tales", his chronicle of Missy the Malamute and my mother. However, the tales, in my opinion, seem to neglect Ember,...
View ArticleCareGiving Kos: Cooking With Your Loved One
One of our bigger stumbling blocks in caring for my mother was her diet. There was not only her forgetting when she last ate, but also her forgetting how much she had eaten -- there were days, for...
View ArticleCaregiving Kos: Complicated Grief
A couple of months after my mother (aka "Mumsie" in GreyHawk-speak) passed, I was invited to participate in a grief support group sponsored by my childhood church. At first I balked because I've...
View ArticleTribute: I Write Because Of Them
At this time every year I take part in an online journaling competition. We're given a weekly prompt, we write, we publish online, and our fellow competitors -- as well as the greater journal...
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Ideas for Next BosKos meetup?
attribution: GreyHawk Hi guys! One of the things we discussed at the Barking Crab during last month's BosKos meetup (you know, the one with the snowstorm?) was ideas for our next meetup. Cambridge...
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