children's books about alzheimer's
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10 Best Children’s Books about Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia

Are you searching for children’s books about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia to read with your kids? You’re in the right place. I’ll never forget my first exposure to Alzheimer’s disease. I was nine. Unbeknownst to me, an elderly woman with dementia picked up my book. She then took it to her room during my Girl…

picture books by black authors and illustrators
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10 Powerful Picture Books by Black Authors and Illustrators

Picture books are my jam. I can never have too many children’s books to read to my girls or to add to my collection. In recent years, I have attempted to diversify our bookshelves with beautiful picture books by black authors and illustrators. Sometimes this happens by accident, and sometimes it’s intentional. (Yes, I am…

Myrle Benton
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9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me

I was honored to deliver the eulogy at my maternal grandmother, Myrle Dee Grubbs Benton‘s funeral. In her eulogy, I talked about nine important things my late grandmother taught me. 9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me My grandmother was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, and a friend. But, most of…

On Earth, as in Star Wars, Perfect Love Casts out Fear

On Earth, as in Star Wars, Perfect Love Casts out Fear

Years ago, my mother-in-law remarked to my grandmother that I “expect everyone to be perfect.” I disliked her comment at the time, but later realized she was right. I do have a tendency to focus more on my own and others’ past mistakes than on my own and others’ present and future successes. Because I…