All posts by Pam McKinley

We may have something lurking in our living room that we have to walk around or crawl over. Something so big that it can’t be ignored, but yet we try and try just hoping one day it will get up and leave. We even climb in our boat and float down the river of De-Nile …

It’s never easy letting go of our loved ones, even when they have been struggling for years with a debilitating condition-even if we say it was a “blessing” it is still never easy saying goodbye. Marilyn, my mother-in-law, was only seventy-five, but she’d had Alzheimer’s for almost three years now, and it progressed very rapidly. …

A few years ago, a friend of mine went through the loss of his mother due to Alzheimer’s Disease. I remember speaking to him after the funeral, and he made a point to mention that while the passing of his mother was the hardest thing he’d ever faced, he was glad his mother had truly …