Adapting to the Moment — Updated

Linda became a resident at Legacy Village on October 1, 2018. Nearly two years later, while preparing to post my first blog, I wrote: In the last two years, as the lights of this world have grown dimmer for Linda, the lights of Heaven are growing brighter. She talks often of wanting to go live... Continue Reading →

Connecting Past and Future (part 3)

In the picture accompanying today’s blog, which was taken last Tuesday, Linda is obviously happy and at peace; however, this idyllic scene captures only a brief moment in a rapidly changing day. She had been agitated and combative in the early morning, refused to take a shower, and ultimately received only a sponge bath. Shortly... Continue Reading →

Connecting Past and Future (part 2)

The picture accompanying today’s blog tells a story and hints that another one is yet to come. Linda and her three sisters were preparing to sing at their parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary on August 7, 1987.  I did not fathom that thirty-five years later, the beautiful blue polka dot dress Linda was wearing would play a... Continue Reading →

Connecting Past and Future (part 1)

Looking through family albums allows me to chronicle my life with Linda as it has unfolded over our long marriage. The picture accompanying today’s blog was taken in front of the little hotel where we stayed on Martha’s Vineyard in October 2012. At that time, Alzheimer’s was slowly moving from a minor inconvenience as I... Continue Reading →

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