changes | Jennifer Sullivan

When There’s Nothing Left of Her

My husband and I take my mom to dinner almost every Wednesday evening. I try to pick different places with good, healthy food and a nice place we can sit…

A Letter to My Mom

a·mends (noun): to compensate or make up for a wrongdoing. Amends in 12-step work are about a genuine change in our behavior instead of the patchwork of an apology ~…

Milestones and Mortality

My mom and I both have milestone birthdays this year. She is turning 80 and I’m turning 50. Fifty years old! When I was in my teens and even into…

Things nobody told me about being an Alzheimer’s caregiver

First and foremost, when it rains it pours. It seems that I can go weeks with just the regular visits to my mom and all is well, but when something…

It’s Never or Now

I’ve been debating whether or not to write this for a few weeks. Writing helps me work out how I’m feeling about something, but this is a sad subject. Almost…

My Weekend Interactive Trader Class

About six weeks ago, my husband and I attended a National Achievers Congress day featuring Tony Robbins. Now all in all that day was great, but not exactly what I…

Things I Miss

I was thinking the other day about how simple things used to be before social media, before I had a computer phone in my pocket, and before I had any…

Why You Should Make a Bucketlist

It is never too late to create a list of things you want to do in your life. Never. The picture to the left illustrates this perfectly. My mother and…

Retirement

I have not retired, yet. However, that is not to say that the feelings that come along with retirement, such as, “what do I do now?” “how am I going…

Illness

When I was 16 years old, I was in a motorcycle accident with a friend of mine. We were on the farm and headed out to check on the horses. …

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