I suppose my love-affair with the flying creatures on our planet can be attributed to my Mom’s Mom, Nana, as all her grandchildren called her, as mine do me.  In Nana’s later years, she had “her” chair by the window.  Her knitting was nearby, always with the pink or blue yarn casted on and taking shape for [...]

In my original post on “The Sandwich Generation” I mentioned that one of the things Kip and I provided for Mom’s amusement were birdfeeders attached to the windows near her recliner.  There are also other types of feeders near those to attract as many varieties of birds as possible.  I learned from a friend that [...]

My son Jacob and his lovely wife Becky, with their adorable two-year old Sofie settled into our home to watch Mom for four days.  They had a little help from our beautiful 17 year old grand-daughter Tia as Kip and I boarded the Amtrack from Glenwood Springs to Denver.  We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center, downtown.  Aaron and [...]

Ten months ago, the idea of having Mom live with me looked a lot different than it does now.  I’m still committed, but I’ve had a major attack of “cabin fever”.  Certainly it has a lot to do with being cooped up for days on end with Mom repeating the same things over and over [...]

How many of us have thought longingly “if only”.  “If only I’d bought that property, invested in Microsoft early on, hadn’t put money into Enron, bought a larger life insurance policy for my spouse, been nicer to my mother-in-law who left it all to the other in-law, etc. etc.” 
 One of Kip’s “if only’s” is “I’d [...]