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Back From the Edge When someone has lived at the edge where safety and danger intermix, where adrenalin pumps, and senses stay on high alert they can become addicted to the feeling. Some cannot stop and return again and again back into the lion’s den to fly higher, dive deeper,...
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By Lloyd R. Adams This is a true story that might inspire you by helping others and at the same time fulfill your own dream to enjoy financial freedom for the rest of your life. In 1986, shortly after securing a 100% financed small business loan with the local community bank...
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July 4 th , or more properly “Independence Day.” Outside my window dads with little kids close beside them are lighting fuses, sending rockets aloft to burst high in the air raining varicolored bits of incendiary material down onto the streets, roofs and lawns. Most I suspect are giving little if...
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The demographic tsunami of baby-boomers is breaking on our shores and will soon swamp the elder care industry. The flotsam left in the wake of this phenomenon is an exponential increase in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. While there is no cure as yet, Reminiscence Therapy (RT) can...
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I should warn you from the start that this story is more about thoughts and feelings about the sudden changes I face in 2015. The first week in January was like most any other week in the middle of a Northwest winter. It was dreary, cold, and rainy. I had been...
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In the fall of 1956 a young woman with four small children moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where my family lived. I don’t remember her name and wouldn’t divulge it if I did, so I’ll call her Carol. She came from another State, where she and her children had been battered by...
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My father, James K (Jim) Long, never met a stranger. To him strangers were just friends he hadn't met. I always admired his ability to strike up a conversation with a person he had just met and talk as if he had always known him or her. The only thing he...
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Whether you are a professional caregiver or have finally gotten around to asking an aging relative to share their life stories, be prepared for the unexpected. As enthused as you might be to hear some amazing life experiences, the elder may not be so much. Young people today are living...
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I've always had a complicated relationship with horses. I love them but that doesn't mean they necessarily liked me back. I think they can tell I don't really know what I'm doing. One time I was on a trail ride. Mom was paying for horseback riding lessons. We only went a...
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I was in grade school when our Dad took us to the park. There was a creek that travelled through most of the park, under a bridge and then under the street. Dad took us down to the water's edge and let us play in it. We saw a crawfish in...
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When I was about five or six my Dad dug a trench to put sprinklers in. He dug the trench in one weekend and it had to wait for the next weekend to put the PVC pipe in. That week Heather, my older sister and our babysitter, filled up the trench...
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