Family went to out to eat tonight. Restaurant name was Home Plate. Some very dumb show (there are some of those out there) on TV. Asked the waitress if she could change the channel to the World Series. (We are all in a family pool — my number is 7). The waitress...
There are interesting people to meet if one just walks around Aurora for a while. Interesting Person #1 The streets around my sister's home are being repaved. I was walking along one of the streets that was in the process of being resurfaced and saw ahead that...
Marcus Daly, Mom's coffin maker, will be on EWTN's "The Journey Home"this coming Monday, October 6th at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific Time. Hope you can tune in. Jezu, ufam Tobie.
Mom was emptied of so many abilities, but she faced those losses, not by a daring choice of fortitude, but by an abiding endurance of what she suffered. There were only a handful of times when she showed frustration, but each of those times she quickly...
This next example could as easily go under the category of Mom's toughness, but here the toughness that she demonstrated was of the will and intellect — the two powers of the soul, powers that I think people with Alzheimer's are often thought to be...
