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One Person, One Song, One Tip
For the first time I brought my guitar along to the Berkshire Country Store where I sip coffee and write. My coverage still being too sparse to go after gigs, I aimed to perform again by casually playing a song or two within earshot of customers. Though Ryan the owner would have let me play anyways, I “auditioned” for him by playing “Humility, Faith and Courage.”* With an original instrumental…
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Cindy's Gaze
Cindy cannot consciously move her muscles. Consequently I never had to use the guardrails on her hospital bed to prevent her from rolling over. Even so, over time her default bedridden position leans her to the left. I correct this by propping up that side a little with a small pillow. In the propped position Cindy’s gaze should be forward, which I make sure happens when I feed her. She also…
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Brain Health Food Swaps
The other day the title “Tuna Salad Swap” on a food magazine jumped out to me. I wondered if the swap would be hummus for mayonnaise, which I do with my tuna salad. Sure enough, the article featured that “amazing” brain health food swap. I swap hummus for mayonnaise with everything. Hummus provides the same texture and better nutrition. I also think hummus tastes better, or at least provides a…
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Brain Health Updates - 05/05/26
Awareness of lifestyle factors that can enhance brain health includes awareness of the societal factors that make such a lifestyle difficult. An article in Nature elaborates on this: Exposure to negative physical and social factors accelerate aging. Usually there are multiple press releases for any “new” finding that comes out (I have been at this so long as to notice that many “new” findings…
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Alzheimer's Murder Mystery Update
Ten years ago I posted “The Alzheimer’s Murder Mystery,” critiquing the emphasis on anti-amyloid research and drugs. My continued curation of brain health updates came up with three articles related to and verifying that post. My post mentioned donepezil and memantine as anti-amyloid drugs with dubious track records. Ten years later there have been more anti-amyloid drugs, with continued dubious…
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Brain Health Updates - 4/9/26
Spring is good for your brain: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/03/clahs-spring-into-a-sharper-mind.html 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260406192913.htm Waking up feeling more refreshed and alert: https://healthcare.msu.edu/news/2026-4-7-scientists-revel-the-secret-to-waking-up-feeling-more-refreshed-and-alert.html
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Trail Magic Updates - 4/9/26
Several factors fueled my belief in humanity, such as the kindness experienced during long distance journeys. The hiking community calls the serendipitous acts of kindness they experience “trail magic.” With my Google Alerts set to “trail magic” and “trail angel,” I will occasionally curate the results for trail magic updates. Trail magic has changed over the course of my lifetime. Originally,…
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Travel Oddities
I keep my eyes open for travel oddities. Two of them occurred in Tucson during the week of St. Patrick’s Day. While walking down the hallway from my room I spotted housekeepers cleaning through an open door to another room. The Residence Inn guest in this particular room evidently had the holiday spirit by the prominent presence of something green. I am not talking about green figures of…
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Writing and Reflection
I spent four days at a Residence Inn in Tucson, Arizona for writing and reflection. Around 7:00 am each day, I had the morning caregiver for Cindy call me. She held the phone near Cindy for my greeting. I went with the usual endearments: “you’re my Expedition Woman,” “we make a great team,” “I’ll be back soon,” “I love you.” I also sang to her a few lines from songs like “Cindy” and “Good…
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Trial Respite
I just returned from Tucson, Arizona for what you might call a trial respite. Not since 2017 have I gone past driving distance from my home. Back then I left for a week while our oldest daughter Charissa stayed with Cindy. That one week vacation provided some respite, but also some unease at being away from my Expedition Woman. Would this shorter, four day vacation have a similar effect? …
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The Journey of Life
I am engaged in a ten year endeavor I call “The Unenlightened Wisdom Project: Journeying from Brain Health to Democracy.” Some of the themes from that project overlap with this one and I occasionally will include excerpts. This first one about the journey of life comes from the White Paper that gives an overview of the whole ten year scope. Dave Coverly, the award winning cartoonist for the…
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Brain Health Updates - 03/05/2026
Here are the latest brain health updates. Northwestern University has been at the forefront of studying the lifestyle behaviors that keep a person mentally vibrant into their nineties and beyond. Now they have a study to partially reveal the physiology behind that. Need further proof that nature is good for brain health? Here you go.
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A New Sleep Hack
I discovered a new sleep hack I can add to the ones I shared previously. In my Elder Rest post I distinguished between hacks to help me fall asleep at bedtime from those needed when waking up in the middle of the night. I have the most trouble falling back asleep at around 4:00 am. By that time 2-3 sleep cycles already have occurred. For falling back asleep in the wee hours holding Cindy’s…
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Brain Health Updates - 02/25/2026
Here are some brain health updates related to the impact of inflammation, Inflammation erodes the blood brain barrier of its gatekeeper function. Want an excuse to drink caffeine in hot beverages? I will keep this in mind when Cindy experiences her mini-seizures. Stay tuned for more periodic updates. Like and share this and other meaningful posts. Encourage a friend to subscribe. Live well.
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Brain Health Cake?
What do you give a person in the final stage of Alzheimer’s everything she really needs,? I decided on baking a brain health cake for Cindy’s 66th birthday. Not having baked a cake in decades failed to deter me. I actually baked a cake as my first attempt at cooking. One snow day while home from school I asked Mom if she could guide me. That subsequently became my go-to snow day activity. I…
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The Duck in the Bathroom
As I receive more coverage this year I spend some of my time writing at one of the two local establishments. Both serve delicious coffee. The environs and coffee stimulate my thinking, but at the cost of at least one trip to the bathroom. While taking care of business I look up from my target to note the portrait of a duck at eye level. He seems to be laughing and I chuckle in response. The…
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Two Rocks in Barbour Woods
The three feet of snow and single digit temperature found me trudging along the carriage road in Barbour Woods. This path and I go way back to before I attended Center School and Mom occupied me with walks in the woods. We used the Shepard Road entrance and would go as far as a boulder where Mom sat and watched me climb. After I became a parent I appreciated the strategy she used for an…