In between visits to my parents, we took the kids on a day trip through Solvang, CA. Mostly because: when you have done every day trip in a 90 mile radius, and the kids are eating the wallpaper, and you still have more summer to go, and if you don’t
Part I here To distract Middle, I got her talking about this year’s Christmas vacation. I’d already agreed to see her over the holiday, but also wanted to take my kids to the East Coast. Thirty years ago, our dad did his residency at Johns Hopkins. For two years we
A few days after they were robbed, I went up to see my parents. A planned visit, but we’d just made the same trip a few weeks prior. It left me with a strange, cuckoo-clock feeling. Mom seems almost energized by the drama. Perhaps having a defined villain and sense
The person my mom hired to come in for 4-hour stints to watch my dad? She stole cash out of my dad’s wallet, my mom’s wedding band, the watch Dad gave Mom as an engagement present, all my mom’s jewelry, a gun, and quite a bit of silver cutlery and
**My dad is a 74ish… maybe he’s a 75-year-old, with dementia diagnosed about six years ago. His symptoms align somewhat with Lewy Body and his scans show vascular problems. From time to time, I keep track of how his symptoms are progressing. In the beginning, I thought doing so would