I pulled into the parking lot. Turned off the car and decided to only bring my wallet with me into the store. No cell phone, no big bag weighing my shoulder down. I was feeling very buoyant, having just left a very fun book reading party with some fabulous women. […]
Author: Janet Archer
The Milkshake-Another Dementia Adventure with my Mother
I always order her the same thing every time: Cheeseburger, fries and a medium chocolate milkshake. We are at McDonald’s for lunch, my moms favorite. When we woke up at my mom’s house four years ago to find that my step father had died in the night, I asked my […]
With a Friend Like That!
I got my mom a talking parrot. Not a real one, but a colorful fake one sitting on a perch. He flaps his wings and repeats what you say. Pete, the repeating parrot. I got the idea from a dementia web site. They had a video of a woman with […]
The Side By Side
I discovered something so simple and amazing today. It was calming for me and I project for my mother too. I call it “the side by side.” I realized that when I am beside my mother it is so much better than being in front of her. Many songs are […]
The Nest
We have a beauty bush on the south side of the house. I am crazy about not wanting to trim it because I love having the expanse of branches and leaves and the brilliant pink explosion of color in the spring that I can look out at from six different […]