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Re-Creating Your Life After Care-partner Loss: Tips from a Transitions Coach

Angela — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:16:40 +0000

Special thanks to Ruth Tamari for contributing as this month’s guest blogger. Although we do different work, in many ways, our work is complementary and our views are overlapping. Please check out my guest post, “Secrets of Self-Care While Caregiving” on her blog! Enjoy! As Randall quoted, “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s [...]

Book Review: “Making the Moments Count: Leisure Activities for Caregiving Relationships”

Angela — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:48:39 +0000

“Making the Moments Count: Leisure Activities for Caregiving Relationships,” has a gentle, compassionate approach that encourages activities that will create memories to last a lifetime. I highly recommend this book by Joanne Ardolf Decker, PhD. The author is a professor emeritus of Therapeutic Recreation at Mankato State University in Minnesota. Even though it was published [...]

Therapeutic Recreation Month 2012

Angela — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:17:17 +0000

Therapeutic Recreation has its roots in the military, believe it or not. You could say the first known accounts of such work was done by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War (1853-1856) where she became best known for her special work in caring for wounded soldiers. It wasn’t until the year 1981 that the National [...]

“Adopt a Policy of Being Joyful”

Angela — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:45:28 +0000

Sage advice from an 84-year-old when asked to share thoughts about happiness. This and many other lessons are shared in a new book called “30 Lessons for Living,” which offers practical advice from more than 1,000 older Americans from all socioeconomic backgrounds. The interviews are a part of the Cornell Legacy Project and can be [...]

Book Review: Spark Communication with Jennifer Antkowiak’s, “Caring Questions”

Angela — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:36:32 +0000

Amazon.com Widgets&lt;A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_mfw&amp;#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;#038;MarketPlace=US&amp;#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fspactime-20%2F8001%2F2a83b13d-23a0-4265-afff-18b4087bcea3&amp;#038;Operation=NoScript”&gt;Amazon.com Widgets&lt;/A&gt; Caring Questions is a wonderfully written and very short book that is filled with a variety of conversation starters for care partners. Jennifer Antkowiak speaks from deep personal experience. She is a caregiver herself with five children and one step-child. She shared in the end-of-life journeys of her own mother, her [...]

Gratitude

Angela — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:39:16 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be thankful for. When things are going well in our lives it is easy to come up with ideas of things we appreciate. During difficult times it can be more challenging to bring thoughts of gratitude to mind. My senior year of high school, a friend of [...]

National Family Caregivers Month 2011

Angela — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:40:41 +0000

November is a month where the words thankfulness, gratitude and abundance jump to the forefront of my mind. Thank YOU, caregivers, for all that you do! Did you know that November is National Family Caregivers Month? It is coordinated by the National Family Caregivers Association. Honoring caregivers in this way started in 1994 with National [...]

Harvest Time Edition: Eat Local & Save Time

Angela — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:01:57 +0000

I LOVE cooking at eating which is why in addition to the space & time blog, I also write a food blog which you can check out here at http://thehangryfoodasaurus.blogspot.com/ As some of you may already know, I am very into the local food movement and have been a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) member of [...]

Meaningful and Positive Aging

Angela — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:04:40 +0000

I am so grateful that one of my groups on LinkedIn shared this video today that I simply had to pass on because it was so amazing. It is a trailer for a documentary called “Old On Purpose.” What makes it so amazing, to me, is that it exemplifies all the reasons why I have always [...]

Daily Vacations? Yes, Please! Five Points Yoga blog + comments by space & time

Angela — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:35:19 +0000

Special thanks to Barrett of Five Points Yoga, for inviting me to participate as a guest blogger on her recent blog post entitled “Vacation Breaks.” I have been taking yoga classes with Barrett for almost one year now and I’m really looking forward to having her back since she’s been on maternity leave. We were [...]