Advice for our children

Yesterday I received this request: “To my dear female friends, family, colleagues and funky ladeez, This is a personal request. My daughter, *****, is turning 16 on Monday. Wow where did the time go! Anyway, I am wanting to give her something that money can’t buy and that she can take with her wherever she…

The grieving of a twin

The grieving of a twin is difficult, and perhaps more so for an identical twin. 29 years ago, someone I was very close to, in a fairly rocky relationship with and had loved for just over six years committed suicide. It changed my life forever, and eventually forced me to look deeply within, and to make changes to…

Blog stats… what do they really mean?

WordPress sent me some statistics about the last 12 months of blogging, and I have added some of it today… The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year.  It would take about 3 days for that many people to see my blog if it was an exhibit at the Louvre Museum. It was a…

The real experts

I follow many other blogs, and I’ve regularly been reading one called Living well with Lewy Body Dementia written by a chap in the UK, Ken Clasper, and another called D4Dementia written by Beth, a friend of mine in the UK. Posted on Ken’s blog today, was his response to the article Improving dementia care: ask those who have lived with the illness written…