Right after graduating with a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy I took a job in a recreation department at a long-term care facility, a “nursing home”. The residents were mostly elderly and there was a floor with patients who had Alzheimer’s disease. I learned 2 important things in the (almost a) year that I worked …
Category: Musings
6 Essential Coping Skills for Life
During my first marriage my wusband (past tense for husband, a word I adopted from a wise friend) was drinking a lot, as alcoholics do… until they don’t. In between binges or out of the fog sometimes he would have profound moments of clarity. I’ll never forget him saying just before falling asleep, drunk, one …
Where my ego still pulls me back…
The first few lines of this prose popped into my head while folding laundry. I sat at the computer and the rest flowed out in a matter of a couple of minutes. I read it. I sent it to a wise friend of mine. She suggested that it may be a curriculum. I agree. First …