Archive for April, 2008
Presto! How to Email a Non-Techie
Posted on 30. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
How many of you have parents or grandparents who just don’t, won’t or can’t learn the computer technology needed to connect them to email? Well HP, the tech giant has solved the problem with creation of the HP Printing Mailbox. It works with a service called Presto and allows you to send [...]
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What Fresh Hell Is This? – The Diabolical Dad in Austria
Posted on 29. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
The third “What Fresh Hell Is This” award goes to the diabolical dad in Austria who imprisoned his daughter and made her a victim of incest for nearly a quarter of a century. And that is turning out to be only the tip of the iceberg of crimes committed by the man [...]
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“What Fresh Hell Is This” Award – Vertigo
Posted on 25. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
The 2nd “What Fresh Hell Is This” award goes to my ongoing case of vertigo. As I wrote last week, I somehow have contracted BPPV – benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. This bugger of an inner ear condition hasn’t responded to the weird set of exercises my doctor prescribed. So yesterday, dizzier than ever (all right hold the funny [...]
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What You Don’t Know About Alzheimer’s Disease
Posted on 08. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
For years what I knew about Alzheimer’s could fit on the head of a pin. I didn’t really understand how this disease ravages a brain. I even remember joking about Alzheimer’s and using the phrase “a little touch of Al” to describe a moment of forgetfulness. But now with a mother and best friend afflicted with [...]
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What Happens When Something Happens to a Caregiver?
Posted on 08. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
My coaching colleague, Mary provides homecare for her elderly mother who has Alzheimer’s. Mary is a wealth of information on the caregiver experience and recently let me know about a special kind of jewelry for caregivers.
The caregiver’s ID bracelet is to be worn by those who provide caregiving in case anything happens to them. If you know any caregivers, pass [...]
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Midlife Tripping Down the Yellow Brick Road
Posted on 07. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
If you visit Midlife’s A Trip often enough you soon learn that I’m a major fan of the movie “The Wizard of Oz”. Since I was a little munchkin myself, I’ve loved the story, Dorothy’s journey and, of course, the ruby slippers. But this past year, I started to see my journey through [...]
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How’s Your Midlife Trip Going?
Posted on 04. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
I’ve started a project collecting stories from people like me on the journey through midlife. I read a quote recently from Jack Canfield, author of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series that really resonated with me about the importance of stories. He points out that:
Since the days we humans sat around fires in our caves, our [...]
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Midlife Women Bloggers on the Roll
Posted on 04. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
Check out my blogroll for a new category — Midlife Women Bloggers. I connected with many of these women over at Blogher.com as they shared perspectives in a lively dialog about women “of a certain age” who blog. Just from that snapshot of a conversation, it was clear that the collective wisdom here is amazing.
Keep your eye on [...]
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Caregiving — The Impact on Midlife Women
Posted on 02. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
Yes I’m back on the issue of caregiving. Not only will caregiving impact most of us at some point in our lives, but the impact on women in midlife will be significant. Consider the following statistic from the National Family Caregivers Association (although I saw this in other resources):
The typical caregiver is a 46 year old woman caring [...]
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In Celebration of My 100th Blog Post
Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Karen.
Last week I did my 100thposting here on Midlife’s A Trip. Although this milestone slipped my mind for a few days, I realized that I should really celebrate the fact that I stuck with my new skill of blogging and didn’t give up putting my thoughts on the written page. But instead of writing something [...]
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