The air today is clear and chilly! My favorite! There is a breeze rustling through the trees out back. I’ve opened up all of the windows, and am welcoming the promise of autumn in to run through the house and jump on all of the furniture. It’s soup weather; sweater weather; fire in the chiminea [...]

My mother had heart surgery on Valentine’s Day this year, and a few days later she experienced a stroke. On February thirteenth she was a vibrant, creative, busy eighty-three-year-old woman who looked and acted like someone in her sixties. The surgery and stroke changed her life dramatically from energetically independent to depressed and listless. She [...]