What is this thing called stress that seems to plague us?Here’s a simple definition: It’s the feeling we get when we want something we’re not getting. We want to get to an appointment and the traffic is stalled so we know we’ll be late — STRESS! We want our partner to listen to us […]

I love to hear stories from caregivers. Recently, a woman whose husband is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s told me that she amuses herself at the end of the day by working on a hilarious children’s book she’s writing. She’s never written anything like this, but she says the idea for this story just […]

I never have flour in the house. Well, that’s not totally true. For several years, I’ve had a container with a little flour stuck up in a high cupboard, left over from some ancient cooking adventure. I’ve never come up with a way to use it up, and I come from a never-throw-food-away-family, so it’s […]