5 Safety-First Strategies for Your Parents’ Hospital Discharge

Hospital/Rehab Issues

You’ve navigated your frail parent’s hospital stay and now it’s time to go home. You probably can’t wait to leave but …what’s coming next is extremely uncertain. Leaving a hospital with a frail older adult in tow is like stepping off a cliff blindfolded. This...

3 Start-Up Business Strategies That Work for Daughterhood

Empowerment

I’ve always had a hard time with planning. I find the process of “thinking things through” boring and tedious. Occasionally this impulsiveness gets me in over my head. Like the time I ordered 20 zillion ivy seedlings for the shady part of my backyard...

4 Must-Know Tips for Your Parent’s Hospital Stay

Hospital/Rehab Issues

It always comes as a shock to me that being likeable doesn’t solve all my problems. In my mind, being accommodating is the key to being likable. Of course, the problem with this thinking is that occasionally all that pent up accommodation and desire to be...

4 Common Traps To Avoid in Making the Move to Assisted Living

Common Challenges

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself Maya Angelou About two months after my husband moved out, I noticed an awful smell coming from somewhere in the kitchen. I spent a whole week trying to locate the source. My kitchen cabinets have...

How Softball and Starbucks Taught Me a Valuable Lesson About Being a Good Parent and a Good Daughter

Empowerment

I’ve been noticing that when I get caught in the undertow of feeling like a failure at parenting, it makes me really angst-y and hyper-controlling with my kids, especially my 15-year-old daughter, Grace. This happened last week when, mid-stream in spring softball...