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Connected - How life online changed lives.

posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
My newest book "Connected" is out.
As a caregiver full of despair and loneliness, Rose Lamatt enters a chat room on the Internet for the first time. She finds a different world than the one she's used to. Night after night, she signs into the same...

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Happy to share with you

posted over 2 years ago, updated 16 days later | 1 comment
I have, in my latter years, become totally engrossed in writing and reading. I actually hated it when I was in grade school…..was even held back a year because I couldn’t read. So what has happened to me now? Am I subconsciously trying to prove my...

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Caught In Between

posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Caught In Between

Joyce sold her house of forty years and bought an apartment in a retirement complex. She lives alone, not knowing anyone. The complex houses, an assisted living area and a nursing home center.

I hadn’t seen Joyce at our usual t...

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Why don't we have camera's in Nursing Home rooms?

posted over 3 years ago | 3 comments
This is taken from a news report I just saw and felt I had to pass it on to Gather, so people would know what goes on in nursing homes, or places people with Alzheimer's or any other dementia's are kept. It made me sick when I saw the report on TV...

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"Well Oiled Machine"

posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 2 comments
“Well Oiled Machine”

Dennys restaurant versus nursing home.

This Sunday morning I stopped at Dennys restaurant for breakfast, and find it packed. I’m seated in a booth watching the staff, waiting for my food to arrive. They look happy, smiling,...

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Fun in the Sun

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Fun in the Sun

Not all fun things in Florida are what you might imagine.

Spending the weekend at a friends home on the pull out sofa bed, one night I heard her go to the bathroom outside her bedroom, in the hallway. She hadn’t been feeling well ...

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