Easing the struggle of the family caregiver
Help My Senior speaks to caregivers’ concerns in their struggles to help their loved ones. We also offer trusted referrals to home care agencies we know personally and have come to trust. Learn more on our About page.
Why I’m Glad My Parents Didn’t Wait for Me in the 1950s
Filling up the Station Wagon With Happy Faces When I was about ten or eleven — the age when a child first starts to wonder about his own beginnings — I did a little arithmetic. To my delight, I discovered that I was born an even nine months after my parents were...
Sidewalk Counseling and the Baby Who Almost Wasn’t Born
Holding the Future in My Arms Somewhere on the streets of Chicago, there walks a young woman in her late 20s. I’ll call her Mona. When she was only about a month old, I held her in my arms. But sadly, I haven’t seen her since. Before she was born, on a cold winter...
The One Skill That Kept Dad Out of the Foxholes of Korea
Resilience in the Face of Life’s Difficulties The other day while scrolling online, I stumbled across a meme that stopped me in my tracks. It was macabre in design — a grinning skull, dark shadows around it — with the words: “Death smiles at everyone. Only the veteran...
The Songs Still Echo: 50 Years After the Charismatic Renewal
How the Renewal Shaped My Catholic Life There was a song I used to sing with others when I was living at home as a young adult. I can remember the refrain vividly, “Come go with me to that land…” That land, of course, was heaven. And the irony was always there,...