Holidays come and go and it seems they bring a mix of memories good and bad. As a wife of a ill husband, the holidays were not easy or even inwardly joyful many years. I remember the sadness and compassion that filled my heart as I watched my husband suffer through the normally joyful days… Read More Hope for the New Year

Holidays with pain and suffering seem like no holiday at all.  The usual prospects of fun, parties, laughing, and playing vanish as the reality of struggles and sorrow loom ahead. How can we overcome this?  How can the holidays be a time of joy in the midst of difficulties? Take each moment captive.  Every minute… Read More Hard Holidays Ahead

I don’t want to draw attention to myself.  I wasn’t the one in pain.  Shae needed all the attention.  It was about him.  I don’t need pity or want to seem selfish, yet I must bring up that the caretaker of an ill or elderly person has many needs. It is hard to see a… Read More Caretaker part 1