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All Night, All Day: Life, Death, & Angels: Introducing LAUREN CAMP!

May 5, 2023 Susan

For previous posts on the contributors, see these authors who were all featured in the first section of the book,…

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Posted in: All Night All Day, Alzheimer's, Angels, Anthologies, Death, Poetry Filed under: All Night All Day Llife Death & Angels, All Night All Day: Life Death & Angels, anthologies, dementia, Lauren Camp, poetry, Took House

Alz Authors

January 9, 2019 Susan

I’m honored to be a part of a wonderful tribe of over 150 authors who write about their experiences with…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: AlzAuthors.com, AlzAuthors.org, Alzheimers, caregiving, dementia, tangles and plaques, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer's

Mental Health Monday: Brain HQ

August 1, 2016 Susan

This morning I read a short article in the August 8 issue of Time Magazine that is intriguing. It’s a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alice Park, Alzheimers, brain training, BrainHQ, dementia, Jerri Edwards, Time Magazine

Faith on Friday: I Will Not Hurry!

July 1, 2016 Susan

About a month ago I did a post about my husband’s ancestor, Ralph Spaulding Cushman, whom we discovered through a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: dementia, games, Hilltop Verses and Prayers, poetry, puzzles, Ralph Spaulding Cushman

Mental Health Monday: Inside the Dementia Epidemic

January 25, 2016 Susan

I’m reading an incredible book right now—Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter’s Memoir by Martha Stennius.  I downloaded it to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: aging, Alzheimers, assisted living, dementia, Inside the Dementia Epidemic A Daughter's Memoir, Martha Stennius, nursing homes

Mental Health Monday: Mom’s Unsung Heroes

October 19, 2015 Susan 1 Comment

This is my 51st post about my mother since I began my blog in 2007. Most of those posts are…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimers, caregiving, dementia, Lakeland Nursing Home Jackson Mississippi, music therapy, nursing homes

Mental Health Monday: Dementia-friendly Cities

June 22, 2015 Susan 1 Comment

  Did you know that June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month? If you’ve been reading my blog for a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, dementia-friendly cities, Kathy Broggy, Knoxville, Parade Magazine, Purple Cities Alliance

Faith on Friday: Listen to the Music!

March 20, 2015 Susan 6 Comments

My Church—St. John the Evangelist in Memphis, Tennessee—is part of a larger organization of parishes in the U.S. known as…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: aging, Alzheimers, Antiochian Orthodox Church, dementia, Doobie Brothers, Listen to the Music, personhood, Peter Kavanaugh, The Word Magazine

Mental Health Monday: Plaques and Tangles

August 13, 2012 Susan 4 Comments

I usually don’t visit my mother in the nursing home on Saturdays. But this past weekend my niece, Aubrey Leigh,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimers, dementia, forgiving, great-grandmother, Lee Martin, mental health, nursing home, plaques, Robert Leleux, Such a Life, tangles, The Living End; A Memoir of Forgiving and Forgetting

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