My Drug Addict Family Member and the Witching Hour
I called it the Witching Hour. Toddlers melt down at around 5pm every single day. This fact is well known to stay at home moms and other peculiar people who spend a great deal of time with little...
View ArticleWhat’s With Our Cold-Calling Pope? I Don’t Care.
I’m sort of loggy and hung over from long days at work this week. Maybe that’s why. Maybe that’s not why. Maybe it’s because of something else. All I know is that I don’t care if Pope Francis called a...
View ArticleMy 24/7 Mama and Zombie Days
My mother is doing a new thing with her dementia. A couple of years ago, she stopped eating. It took all sorts of finagling to get her started again. Now, she eats and demands ice cream (which she...
View ArticleWe Need Caregiving for Caregivers of Parents with Dementia
A few days ago, I had someone praise me for my “witness.” This person was referring to the fact that my family and I are taking care of my elderly mother. I wanted to interrupt this person and tell...
View ArticleLord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Walking Mama Home.
Mama seems better the past couple of days, but she is hallucinating, which means no sleep for me. I’m sorry I’ve been so slow to come back to blogging. I’ve been going minute-by-minute on Mama care,...
View ArticleIt was a Mama Kind of Weekend.
My family and I had a rough weekend with Mama. Here’s a summary of part of it that I wrote for the National Catholic Register. If you could spare a prayer for me and mine, it would be much appreciated....
View ArticleIf We Don’t Fight for Life, This Hunger for Annihilation Will Devour Us All
My near death experience with Mama pushed me to considering a nursing home. I wrote about it, and about the ghastly business of passing laws legalizing medical murder, for the National Catholic...
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