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A walk, a widower, and a Good Friday moment
Dementia claimed his wife's life The older man, somewhere in his 80s, waved and smiled. I was a bit taken aback. It was a warm Good Friday afternoon, and I was out walking the dog—just following my normal path, expecting the usual silence from a stranger. And so his...
A father for every family
When I was single, I had a ho-hum attitude toward friends and family members who watched their children grow up. But when I became a father, my attitude was flipped on its head. After I got married, I remember when our only boy reached the age of about six, and...
Chester’s Christmas morning
Four-year-old Chester slid slowly out from out from underneath the covers. His mother had prompted him to get out of bed, for it was Christmas morning. He was sleepy-eyed and reluctant. “Go to the front room,” his mother urged. This command of course meant nothing to...
Prayers that seem to go nowhere
I know of two men who make regular trips to the dementia unit of a local nursing home. Two or three times a month one of them brings a statue of Mary and leads them in the rosary. To the outside observer, there seems to be few results from what they do. The man...