Author: Jensen

A week ago I had a long day with severe throbbing pain in my left ear, up the side of my face, at the base of my skull and the feeling I was heading toward a migraine headache. The ear pain was shooting electrical spurts here and there. The migraine never developed, and I went…

Today finds me outside cleaning the hot tub wherein the last guests left enough sand to create our own beach in the backyard. I walk around to the front of the house to get mail out of the mailbox. My neighbor appears with his dog, Buddy, for their usual early evening walk. What perfect timing,…

Breakfast is Don’s favorite meal and the easiest to get him to eat. Many conversations with him revolve around breakfast time and his choices for the day. He wakes up, at any time of the day, and he instantly thinks it’s breakfast time.  I keep his room stocked with an abundance of breakfast items that…

The usual morning routine starts with Don letting me know he already had a bowl of cereal. He pushed past me in the doorway and made a beeline to the kitchen cookie jar. He knocks over everything in his way. If he gets in too big a hurry, his navigating system needs to recalculate. Objects…

I come up the stairs from the laundry room and find Don eyeballing the stairs down and ready to take that first step. Kristy: Where are you going? Don: I need to go downstairs. I need to look for something.  Kristy: You know you can’t go down the stairs alone. You might fall or get…

Don: How are we set for groceries? Kristy: My last trip to the grocery store cost $750. It’s now the second highest expense in the home next to the mortgage. We don’t eat that much. Don: Does it include toothpaste? Kristy: It includes everything you can buy at a grocery store, including toothpaste. I’m busy…

“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.” -Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It Today is National Poetry Day. I wrote poetry in high school a 100 years ago. Who didn’t? It was the 1960s and 70’s. Peace & Love and…

The cast has added a new character. Genevieve is now Derrick’s live-in girlfriend, and we love visiting with these two. There is always a lot of laughing, like the time the 4 of us went to a local restaurant for dinner and loaded up in the wrong car to go home. It made sense 1…

My day was altered with many unexpected visitors. I was not able to get away to the store for Don’s latest Rx refill. No time to cook and Don was talking “hamburger” all day. I ask him if he wants like a McDonald’s hamburger or should I stop at a pub or restaurant for $40…

“You say I took the name in vainI don’t even know the nameBut if I did, well really, what’s it to ya?There’s a blaze of light in every wordIt doesn’t matter which you heardThe holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t muchI couldn’t feel, so I tried to touchI’ve told the…