Growing Bolder Community

I would giggle and put my hand out for a piece of her home made maple sugar candy. I was very young then, maybe 5 or 6 years old. Aunt Eleanor lost her husband years before and raised 3 kids on her own working at a sock factory in central Pennsylvania. Her row home was in shambles. The cupboards didn’t have doors nor did the bedrooms or even the bathroom. Uncle Ess died before he could...

Sometimes it takes a funeral to find out the scope and reach and impact of what a person did when they were living! My Aunt Mary died last month, at the age of 82. She was a history teacher, and after she had retired from teaching history she threw herself into volunteering for all sorts of historical things. We had traveled together, and kept each other abreast of our shopping adventures...

Eldercare isn't all about stress Many of us have great stories to share about the humorous side of care giving.For example: Molly P. was helping her 94 yr old aunt (aka Auntie) move from a 4 bedroom house where she lived for 63 years, into a 1 bedroom apartment in an assisted living community. As they were weeding through the accumulation of stuff & things from two husbands, her mom and aunt,...

It was a scary time. The Japanese Empire had mounted a sneak attack on our military facilities at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. We suffered devastating losses and the U. S. was at war. President Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy” and even though I was only 5 years old and didn’t really understand those words, I definitely remember being scared for us all. Everyone was....

Uncle Dave, 2005 This is my uncle, David Kyle. He is recognized in the science fiction community as the elder statesman, certainly to the older generation and since the passing of two of his very close friends, Arthur C. Clark and more recently, Forrest J Ackerman, the man who coined the term, sci-fi. I don't know how many present day fans he has, but it's not all that important. He...