CareVerses
Champions with a Cause: An Ode to Caregivers
A bather, a baker, a yummy meal maker. A caregiver is this and more. Just how much does a caregiver do? It’s impossible to try to keep score! more
May 23, 2018
Grandma, Who do You See?
Grandma,Who are you talking to, When you are trying to walk out of the door, Against the strength of people trying to restrain you? more
May 16, 2018
I Take My Job To Heart
I read him poetry, and he cries. He’s eighty two and has Alzheimer’s more
May 2, 2018
Lasting Love
There is a story to be told in my retirement community. It is a story of love. It isn’t puppy love, young love or the many-splendored love of years past. It is lasting love: love over time. Not sexual, but simply love of each other as partners. more
Apr 26, 2018
Trials and Triumphs of Caregiving
How Can I Thank you You are special I will still love you more
Apr 17, 2018
A Daughter's Lament
I think of thee and the way you used to be. Your sense of humor and caring words now gone from your memory. more
Apr 11, 2018
A Survivor's Story
It is out of compassion that I go, Yet a role delegated by marriage. Committed to another’s well being, Oblivious of the coming disparage. more
Apr 4, 2018
At Peace Now
He’s at peace now No more struggle No more sorrow more
Mar 12, 2018
I Went Out Today
I went out today. I went by myself. I looked for you. But could only see memories more
Mar 7, 2018
Caregiver's Spring Fever
Long cold winter nights Encircled by a frozen landscape That was magic in December And cursed by March more
Feb 21, 2018
My Best Friend
My best friend died last night. I held her hand As her life slipped into eternity Helpless to plug the dike that held back death. more
Feb 14, 2018
Battle Hymn of Aging
To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: We've reached the age of sixty-five Our golden years are here. more
Jan 31, 2018
Your Loving Care
When I first came to live here, I was sad and weary, For I had left my home and given up my dreams. more
Jan 16, 2018
A Sea Change in Care
Let us hold hands as we let go As we let go, as we let go Of whom you once were Of whom I once was more
Jan 3, 2018
Healing Glue
I wake up from a nap. There he is. I emerge from the shower. There he is. more
Dec 26, 2017
A Caregivers Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, When all through the house A caregiver was scurrying, Caring for her dear spouse more
Dec 15, 2017
The Gift of Now
A hedge row stitches suede sky to prairie patches. I brake for a weathered truck and read the “eat beef” bumper sticker. My pulse slows as Public Radio plays Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. more
Dec 14, 2017
his name is david
Confusion spreads, his people change, his world is suddenly very strange. He fights against it, holds it tight, surrounds himself with those, who make his world bright. more
Dec 13, 2017