My dad called me at work twice today to let me know that he’d been shopping, and, had found several framed prints for his house.
It’s been very odd to hear him talk about what “looks right” where, and, how something already on the wall is the “wrong proportion”.
Honestly, before my mother died, I […]
There are conflicting messages in the media regarding aging.
Big surprise there, I know.
On one hand, there’s a multi-billion dollar industry full of products and ideas to help us to “defy” aging, and, on the other hand there’s a growing trend to celebrate aging “naturally”.
I’ve never fully subscribed to either camp, but, I never […]
My dad and I went to the cemetery yesterday for Memorial Day here in the States. We’re not usually cemetery go-ers, but, he wanted to do it, so I went along.
It was a beautiful day as we made our rounds to the cemetery where my mother is buried, and the other one where my […]
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has issued a document document, Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities, to help determine how employment laws apply to workers who care for family members.
While it does not make caregivers a protected group, it does help clarify instances when these employees could be […]
I was born in 1964, the last year of the Baby Boomers, and, I’ve always thought I’d didn’t really have a claim to this era.
I’m too young to be a true Boomer, and, too old to be a Generation X-er.
But, thanks to Boomj, a Boomer lifestyle, and, social network, I have just discovered that […]
As we get older, changes occur, and, often we aren’t aware of them.
If you’re currently experiencing an intense desire for an expensive foreign sports care, and, you have 6 kids, and, a specific memory of the Kennedy Administration, you might want to consider the Midlife Crisis Retreat for men.
Or, do you know someone who […]
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and, Baby Boomers suffer from a significantly higher degree of hearing loss than their parents.
From 1971 to 1990, hearing problems among those between the ages 45 and 64 jumped 26 percent, according to a National Health Interview Survey.
Also, there was also a 17 percent increase in […]
GenBetween is one year old today.
Isn’t that, like, 7 in blog years, or, something?
It’s hard to believe, but, this time last year I posted my first entry about being in between young children, and, aging parents.
My mother was dying of cancer, and, when I wrote that first entry, I knew I’d be sharing […]
Bigtreemurphy.com, Alzheimer’s for caregivers has a well thought out list of 12 Things Not to Say to a Caregiver.
It contains some very common phrases people tend to use. More importantly, it challenges those phrases, and, though some of these challenges may seem harsh, they really make you think, and, they’re true.
My situation with my […]
My father is a man of few words, and, until the past few years, few phone calls.
Some of you may already know this, but, for most of my life, if the phone rang, and, he was on the other end, someone had died.
So, even when he got a cell phone, and, his calls were more […]
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