ysabetwordsmith has a good post titled Loneliness and Fraying Social Fabric, that's a followup to haikujaguar's recent post on loneliness and how it spreads. Lots of good stuff there, and even more in the comments.

She makes some good suggestions. "Restore our support of people who are ( Read more... )

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Time for another Wishful Wednesday post, and its fortnightly link to my Caregiver's Wishlist.

More progress on gardening: thanks to Andrew for picking pears and pruning the fruit-trees.

Great progress on the Closets of Doom: Marty completely cleared out and re-arranged the front closet. One can actually walk in now.

Colleen has ( Read more... )

It's time, I guess, for another Wishful Wednesday post, where I give you a link to the Caregiver's Wishlist

I think maybe once every other week or so will be enough?

The main changes since last time are a couple of items checked off, and one added: the Closets of Doom. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially screaming_angel and moshez.

It's Wednesday. I decided over the weekend that "Wishful Wednesday" might be a good day to post a link to the Caregiver's Wishlist that I've been working on.

Thanks to moshez, Ali, and Marty, and of course the YD, who are already taking on several of these tasks.

I'm a little fuzzy on how often to post this. Is once a week too much ( Read more... )

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I still haven't really gotten the hang of this "the caregiver has to take ( Read more... )

I've never been any good at managing my time. (Or my money, but that's a matter for another post.) Caring for Colleen, with her limited mobility, has taken a large chunk out of my day. And I've recently discovered that I need more sleep -- at least 8 hours, where I was getting by on 6.

So let's add this up: a full-time job, sleep ( Read more... )