World Headlines Review: Bangladesh: Dabbling in Dhaka Stock Markets
A classic stock market boom-bust cycle is underway in Bangladesh, inciting riots after the closure of the country’s main markets in Dhaka and Chittagong this week. The picture painted by the charts...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Weeping in Public Places
Forgive me, I have been crying. Today I wept while driving, when I saw an old couple hug on the sidewalk. I wiped my cheeks as I watched the post office clerk weigh my letter and add up the...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: It’s Scary Being an...
Growing older always involves some kind of loss. For my Mom, it meant giving up her beloved car. To Mom, a car has always represented freedom and independence. She fancies herself as a kind of...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: A Remarkable Story of...
KarolinaJonderko is a Polish photographer who nursed her beloved mother throughout a frightful journey to end with cancer. After her mother died, Jonderko realized that she’d forgotten all the happy...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: THE WEIGHT OF LOVE IN...
Recently I had the immense pleasure of reading every poignant and fascinating word in a literary magazine called The Sun. The January, 2016 edition is on the subject of care. I highly recommend this...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Unfairness of...
I’ve been trying to remember the first time I felt the outrage of injustice. I recall that in about grade four, I was playing outside my school when the bell rang to announce the end of recess. It was...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The Duck-Rabbit Nature Of How We Experience Life – Helena de...
Helena de Bres writes about how Philosophy if you’re doing it right, is an absurd practice. What I found interesting about her essay is the
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: I Thought I Would Be OK,...
My Mom passed away on August 16th at the age of 96. Ninety-six is a big number and a lot of years to live. When Mom reminisced about skiing down her street in Montreal as a child, I observed that her...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: MEETING FEAR WITH...
I was speaking with a friend today about fear in caregiving. The fear that we might forget something very important, the fear that dismissing a symptom now could provoke a crisis later, the fear that...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: A Time to Feel Grateful,...
My husband Jim and I are packing this morning – we’ve got an early morning flight tomorrow to Dayton, Ohio. Our daughter Natalie’s boyfriend grew up there and we’re all meeting at his family home to...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: THE EMPTY CHAIR AT OUR...
It’s funny how the threads of our lives intersect sometimes to create meaning, sometimes giving us a clearer view of what is before us, or what is missing. Our daughter Natalie Wright is a curatorial...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: 4 TIPS FOR GETTING...
Grief is part of the caregiving experience and when a loved one passes away, unbearable sadness and loneliness can overwhelm. Today, I am happy to host this guest post by writer and widow, Sara Bailey...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Shadow – My Bestest Dog
This is my dog, Shadow. We found her at the Alberta Sheltie Rescue society. She had passed through two families before finding her forever home with me. Shadow passed from this world yesterday and I...
View Articlecentre of the universe: 40 years
Some anniversaries we don’t need to remember. My Da just called to remind me that it was 40 years ago today that his father, my Gramps, was killed in a farm accident. Do you have a singular day...
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