Getting together with #family over the #Holidays was wonderful for some and for others more challenging… .  Sometimes one or more adult children won’t have seen Mom or Dad for a few months and one or more parents’ health, mobility and #cognitivedecline can feel like a huge elephant in the room. Broaching the subject of what comes next isn’t easy. Talking to our parents about aging and their evolving needs usually isn’t one of those conversations you want to initiate over a fe

Christmas is around the corner and I don’t know about you but I have seen a lot of people trying to simplify the entire experience. They are focusing on time spent with family and close friends, sometimes only buying for the children and basically pulling back on the consumer madness that used to grip so many of us. You know there was a time when I used to buy presents for forty seven people.  I would be exhausted by the time Christmas rolled around. One thing I managed to le