by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 5, 2019 | Resilience
Living with Paradox Making peace with paradox. It’s tough, but essential for better living and better perspective. She received infusion treatments on her birthday. This was decidedly NOT the way she wanted to spend her birthday. But, her parents brought cake anyway....
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 29, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care As you lean into your unique situation, remember, there is grace for you! If no one else has ever extended it, or if you have a supremely difficult time believing it, allow me to extend some grace to you: You are forgiven. Today is a new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 26, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care She keeps going. Her voice is soft. Her attempts at annunciation tend to leave her words slurred together due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease. She walks slowly, precariously on the verge of a fall at any moment. The disease has...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 26, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care I fully concur with this elegantly pointed observation from Elizabeth Kubler Ross: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 8, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care People never seem to ask when you’re ready for them. These surprise attacks can happen in waiting rooms, on elevators, or in the bleachers. “What’s wrong with your hands? Does your mother have Alzheimer’s? Why were you in the hospital?” In...
