by Claire | Oct 11, 2020 | Dan's Blog, News
Teaching this old dog new tricks? Really? Dayo, Claire’s black lab/greyhound mix companion for the last 9 years, is getting older and not seeing as well. He loves retrieving the frisbee from the river but more often these days, he can’t see where it lands....
by Claire | Aug 26, 2020 | Dan's Blog, News
I invited my father-in-law to watch Mission of Honour, a 2018 film about Polish fighter pilots who helped the RAF defeat the German air force. It was not long before I realized that he could not keep up… He was not following the dialogue, the jokes or really the plot...
by Claire | Aug 14, 2020 | Dan's Blog, News
There’s an old Christian song rattling around in my mind today, particularly these two lines: “We’ll guard each one’s dignity and save each one’s pride, and they’ll know we are Christians by our love…” If ever there was a...
by Claire | Jun 23, 2020 | Dan's Blog, News
More notes from a Covid-19 Caregiver’s journey… Boy am I shaky this morning. Fortunately my pulse is okay (which means no arrhythmia) even if my chest is fluttery with free floating anxiety. The last two nights I must confess I have had a fair bit of...
by Claire | Jun 17, 2020 | Dan's Blog, News
More notes from a Covid-19 Caregiver’s journey… Something pretty crucial, a turning point of sorts, has been dawning on me lately. But I’m not going to make the same mistake I made with my mother-in-law, the now deceased beloved partner of 60 odd...