CareVerses
A Caregiver's Prayer
Are wishes strong desires with a minimum chance of fruition? Are hopes strong desires with an expectation of an outcome? Read more
Feb 20, 2019
She’s There
I dreamed I was sitting across from Mom, preparing green beans for freezing. I was thinking about all the hours I had spent by her side. And how sad I was that she was gone. All the while She’s saying something but I’m not listening. Read more
Feb 13, 2019
Through the Eyes of Blue
As her eyes slowly closed I took comfort In her peaceful respite As we walked together Read more
Feb 6, 2019
Caregivers Request
Do not ask me to take your counsel or advice as well intentioned as it may be There is so much I am experiencing that you can’t know or see I am the ME, faithfully working be, Household to run, the invincible one! Read more
Jan 23, 2019
MEMORY UNIT/DEMENTIA
Memory unit, somewhere between the ports of reason and south of confusion, with no parallels of longitude and latitude to mark the spot exactly, you will find the memory unit. Passports are not required. Read more
Jan 16, 2019
Silent Night
‘Twas the Night before Christmas, Read more
Dec 18, 2018
Glorious Moment
The old man shuffles down the long corridor of the nursing home Doffing his hat to the wheel chair bound blind lady Offering a mumbled “Good morning’ to the deaf man His sadness causing a frail birch bending of his once-oak body. Read more
Sep 18, 2018
A Caregivers Lament
Invisible - ME - I AM U. C. I am the ME, faithfully working be, Household to run, the invincible one! Read more
Jun 20, 2018
Redemption
Mother clipped my sisters down to size. Dust whirled at the heels of small spirits flighting, So I stepped lightly after, reeling in my own hurrahs, before they’d call her scanner eyes my way. Read more
May 29, 2018
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! Read 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? Read 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 Read 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. Read more
Apr 26, 2018
Trials and Triumphs of Caregiving
How Can I Thank you You are special I will still love you Read 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. Read 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. Read more
Apr 4, 2018
At Peace Now
He’s at peace now No more struggle No more sorrow Read more
Mar 12, 2018