Tag Archives: grandparents

I was in eighth grade when my grandpa got Alzheimer’s after his open-heart surgery. The first signs of his Alzheimer’s were hallucinations. It started right …

Recently I picked up an imaginative doll in a gift shop and read about Danna. She has a company, “Danna Does Dolls.” Each of her …

“…how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing” (Matthew …

When I was a kid, I admired my parents and vowed to be an involved, caring, loving parent like them. Well, now I am a …

I grew up with five brothers on an 11-acre farm in Oregon. We all had our duties on the land and life seemed perfect for …

One morning I met a young mother in the playground at our community park. Her three-year-old daughter and my two-year-old grandson had discovered each other …