tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5408858266165464991.post2236051712148598338..comments2023-09-12T19:59:14.424-04:00Comments on A Long, Lonely Journey: Loving a Spouse Who is Living with Dementia: As Time Goes By . . . Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386870840759760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5408858266165464991.post-7505415506772310512021-02-19T08:15:17.016-05:002021-02-19T08:15:17.016-05:00(I love this new connection across the miles.) I l...(I love this new connection across the miles.) I love your optimism! I'm just as optimistic as you are . . . summer 2023 perhaps? And yes, I'm deeply biased, but my nephew IS such a great young man! Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386870840759760414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5408858266165464991.post-32997490188674295582021-02-19T08:09:15.890-05:002021-02-19T08:09:15.890-05:00Thank you! I am extraordinarily lucky to have met ...Thank you! I am extraordinarily lucky to have met Doug - my life is so much the richer for having loved him. And I adore sharing these little stories about him with people who were not as lucky as I to know him when he was well . . . I am super lucky to have met a blogging mentor exactly when I needed to. Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386870840759760414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5408858266165464991.post-37487219349632639872021-02-18T05:45:09.360-05:002021-02-18T05:45:09.360-05:00For obvious reasons, the Burns and Scottish entry ...For obvious reasons, the Burns and Scottish entry all but finished me off. Next time I run the Burns Night at Churchill college (he writes optimistically) will be even more emotional than usual. Especially if you are at the table with me, (he again writes hopefully.) I may have to change my choice of central poem, though I promised never to drop "Jon Anderson, My Jo" to a mentor, some years ago. <br /><br />I have now read them all - wonderful thing half-term - and want to say how impressive your nephew is. "Whit a smashin' laddie!"TinyMontgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581312584974079670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5408858266165464991.post-72963754303975854402021-02-09T13:32:46.362-05:002021-02-09T13:32:46.362-05:00I love how you share all these miles you've wa...I love how you share all these miles you've walked and are walking together (I know this is not just a metaphor!). I love the smiles in the first photo in particular, how clear is your delight in each other. Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13169971552802919035noreply@blogger.com