As I make the transition from ending my "Alzheimer's Blog" to re-invigorating my "Writer's Blog", I will double post on both. You can sign up to receive the posts by e-mail or by subscribing. These links are located on the top right side of the page once you are on the writer's blog.
My "mhorvich cares about alzheimer's" blog has been somewhat linear, with some back and forth, but none-the-less following Gregory and my journey since 2010. It shares not only our experiences but also our ups and downs, our lessons, and suggestions that may help you think about life, death, and the activity called living! Even though the journey and the blog are linear, there are benefits from scrolling back through the blog in a non-linear fashion to experience the Journey of Alzheimer's at various twists and turns and rest areas on the path.
My "mhorvich writes" blog is non-linear, more random. I write about what moves me, when it moves me and where it moves me. Sometimes I write about my life experiences, sometimes dreams, often observations and insight into situations, and also just "musings." Some of the writings are in essay form, some memoirs, some poetry. Some are fiction, most are non-fiction. As with a linear blog, you could start at the beginning and work your way through, over time, to the current day post. Or you could dip in here and there to see what you come up with.
Both blogs have "key word descriptions" running along the right side of the page with the number of times that topic has been addressed. If you click on the key word, it will open all of the posts dealing with that descriptor.
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Fondly,
Michael
It will be interesting to follow along this new path.
ReplyDeleteI never wrote about the illness of my siblings who died with Alzheimer's. I did start a blog about their early years, a fictive work with threads of truth to which I had to add details as I imagined things might have been. It stopped with our Daddy marrying my mother, eight years before I was born.
http://zeldamary.blogspot.com/
I read quickly back through to a hand full of your blogs from 2008. Besides the beautiful portraits of you family which you paint with such an artistic brush, the story of the family is a difficult one. I am impressed but more importantly moved by your stories and by your writing. Thanks Jean.
ReplyDeleteGood day! I could have sworn I’ve been to your blog before but after going through some of the posts I realized it’s new to me. Regardless, I’m definitely pleased I found it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back frequently!
ReplyDeleteDiane, Thanks! You may have also seen mhorvich.blogspot.com?
DeleteEven though http://mhorvichcares.blogspot.com is now dormant (see info below) there are many useful, insightful posts. Scroll back from the end or forward from the beginning. My guess is that you could spend a lot of time here and maybe learn or experience a thing or two about living with and loving someone with Dementia/Alzheimer's or maybe come away with the feeling that "you are not alone" in YOUR work with the same!