do you know the alzheimer’s alphabet?
Being a dementia care partner has its ups and downs, and often carers seem to…
Browsing: prayer
10 more poems i didn’t want to write
I have a love/hate relationship with writing. The bit I love best is being finished. The…
let me weep
No one escapes grief and suffering. But a good number of dementia care partners seem…
always mother and child
This piece is inspired by an anonymous poem someone shared on Facebook and to which…
the forgetful still want to be valued
In March 2017, I gave my first four live BANGS(TM) mini-workshops. BANGS(TM) is the model that…
blessings and curses
My Alzheimer’s story is full of sorrow, joy, love, healing, despair, grief and more. Each…
don’t rest in peace or sleep deceased
With death comes grief and letting go, but the loss is in us. The person…
i didn’t know how soon you’d go
I was lucky to be at my mother side when she died on August 17,…
homeward bound: poetic grief and hopeful song
The vapour trails are scarcely visible in the image above, but they were as clear…
then and now, sacred cows
This poem in rhyming couplets, and the links within it, reflect the past, the present, and…