Author Archives: storyteller59

After dinner last nite mom called to ask about the current hurricane. She was watching the news. We are going to be fine she tells me but are you going to be effected by it she asks me. I ask her what she means as she has caught me off guard. Florida will be fineContinue reading “The storms coming…”

Just before the phone clicked off I heard those words, if I had my car. I wanted to say something, but what is there to say. How do you respond to you mom when she says if I had my car. It was supposed to be three of us completing the task of moving mom.Continue reading “If I had my car…..”

I remember watching those commercials for the medical alarms. There was an older person on the floor in the living room or the kitchen shouting to who knows who “ Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”. We would laugh so hard and imitate the people in the commercial. We thought it was soooContinue reading “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”

Everything in life requires a certain amount of give and take. To much of one thing and not enough of another and things become lopsided. We, the care takers of the world, run the greatest risk of becoming lopsided because we spend very little time thinking about our own needs. I started a todo listContinue reading “Balance”

We collect them. Put them on display on the backs of doors and on ornate hat racks, but how many do you actually wear. I find myself thinking a lot about hats these days. Not the ones we hang on the back of a door, or the ones we add to a collection to admire.Continue reading “Hats”

Who would have thought it would be so difficult to find a doctor in 2020. As we were preparing for this move from Florida to New Jersey I truly thought I had all my ducks in a row. We had all our final visits, checked all the medications for refills, spoke with all her doctors.Continue reading “A little luck”

This has been on our minds for a long time. It has been several years in the making and so did not turn out the way we thought it would. The conversation always went round and round, the timing was never quite right and then in the blink of an eye it just was. TheContinue reading “The road home…”

I am my mother’s daughter. This phrase never rang more true than it has in the past months. My mom always did what was needed. Always seemed to find the wear with all to get it done in such a way as to make it look easy. I remember the Christmas after her mother passedContinue reading “This is who I am…”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”