by Kevin Banet | Aug 9, 2025 | Reminisce
The Warning in My Mother’s Voice I can still hear my mother’s voice from years ago, slightly exasperated, as she flexed her fingers and winced. “It’s my arthritis again,” she’d say, usually while stirring a pot or folding laundry. Back then, I nodded sympathetically...
by Kevin Banet | Aug 6, 2025 | Reminisce
Finding Peace with a Puff Just the other day, I lit up my first cigar in over twenty years. No, I haven’t fallen off the wagon into some smoky abyss. It was just a small return to a bygone pleasure. Back when I used to enjoy the occasional stogie with my...
by Kevin Banet | Jul 21, 2025 | Home Care, Reminisce
This article was written by a guest contributor, John Trompeter, the owner/operator of ComForCare of Wheaton, IL. When King Henry V wanted to rouse his troops in a spirit of brotherhood, he called out that famous line, “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”...
by Kevin Banet | Jul 11, 2025 | Reminisce, Senior stories
The Bitter and Sweet of Reconnection Have you ever looked back and longed to sit again with a friend from the past? Just to fish together, to watch the tiny bobber on a small pond, like you used to? Or stroll through the malls again on a lazy Saturday afternoon and...
by Kevin Banet | Jul 9, 2025 | Family, History, Reminisce
A Legacy from the Horse and Buggy Days My cousin Vicki once said something that captured the awe we all feel when we talk about our family’s history: “Granny Eva was alive when horses were still on the street.” She said it almost in disbelief—as if the world that...
