alzheimer's disease
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My Mother Will Always Be My Mockingbird After Losing Her to Alzheimer’s Disease

A counselor once told me that my mother would be more “accessible” to me after she died than when she was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. I didn’t fully understand what she meant at the time.  She thought I was going to be able to communicate with my dead mother? Yet, shortly after my mom died,…

2014:  Learning to Live Courageously
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2014: Learning to Live Courageously

Often, on New Year’s Eve, I publish a post filled with photos and happenings from the past year.  (Here are the posts from 2012 and 2013.) A look back at last year I’ve been putting off the 2014 post because it is difficult to write.  Earlier today, I re-read the Bible verse for the 2014-2015 Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)…