Category Archives: Dementia

Everyone Has a Mother

Posted on October 16, 2017 by admin

  Everyone Has a Mother Everyone has a mother; most have a grandma too, You may be young and hip, well hurray for you, But if you don’t know your grandma’s story, You don’t know just who you are. Even … Continue reading →

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The Old Quilting Bee

Posted on October 13, 2017 by admin

  The Old Quilting Bee H. W. Bryce Ladies bending over quilting frame, Busy fingers stitching squares Into a pattern speaking love, Happy voices humming hope. Making patches, keeping memories, Every stitch a kiss, each caress A stroke of strength, … Continue reading →

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Memory Is a Silly Old Bugger

Posted on October 9, 2017 by admin

  Memory is a Silly Old Bugger Memory is a silly old bugger, He’s the living example of hugger mugger, He plays hide and seek with facts and with figures, Today’s events…he hides away somewhere and substitutes twenty-year-old events for … Continue reading →

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Cheshire Cat

Posted on October 6, 2017 by admin

  * This may strike you odd as a tribute, but anything can trigger a cherished memory – anything! So, today I choose the amusing over the maudlin. When the Cheshire Cat Comes to Visit When the Cheshire Cat comes … Continue reading →

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“I’m Fine,” she said

Posted on September 29, 2017 by admin

  I’M FINE, SHE SAID H. W. Bryce “I’m fine!” she said with a simple smile As she tried to hide the many a mile That she had trod in caring for her man, As though to prove that she … Continue reading →

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Tremulous Times

Posted on September 25, 2017 by admin

  Tremulous times So much for peace. When the poorest and the least opportuned people Have had enough and hate replaces hope (the worm turns) And fireworks explode Tempers no longer tempered Do imprudent things Thinking is as thinking does … Continue reading →

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Come, Break Bread with Me

Posted on September 15, 2017 by admin

    Come, Break Bread with Me Come, break bread with me, and we shall talk of many things, of peace and harmony, friendship, and the turmoil that is life, and how we may all just get along. And so … Continue reading →

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