Tag: mother
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Bad Lands – Bonding
It was on my bucket list – along with almost every NPS in the lower 48. Okay, maybe AK and HI too but not sure the FJ would get to those places. A great place to visit, hike, and experience – but I wish I was there when the lodges were open. That would have…
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Ways to Help Seniors During Covid … even a year in!
I haven’t seen her for a year! Covid. Shut Down. Quarantine. No Visitors. Last March, the world started down a new path. My mother is in a retirement home about 170 miles away. Prior to that, I know I don’t see her as much as she desired. But 2020 … none at all. But yesterday,…
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Adjusting to the Technologically Challenged (or, this is for my mother)
Technology is amazing. With our phones we carry maps, Bibles, internet access, news reports in an instant, thousands of songs and videos, thousands of picture to place on social media outlets, teaching and preaching series, watch TV and movies, keep a datebook, have phonebooks, entire library collections, calculators, and of course, candy crush (or whatever…
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Two solitary souls met each other, and made each other’s life better.
Two solitary souls met each other, and made each other’s life better. It happened over 15 years ago. And not everyone was happy it happened. My mother, who was a widow for about a decade, finally retired, moved from Delaware, and took up residence in The Chesapeake (an excellent retirement village in Newport News). Her…
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A picture is worth a thousand words
So yesterday I wrote on spending time with people. And I did … over turkey and fixin’s and desserts … go ahead and loosen the belt people. I’m not the only one. And today, besides exercising to shed those calories I took in, I will be spending time with a very important person in my…
Muddy Shoes by Todd 