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She Walks
About six months ago Alice was sitting on the edge of the bed folding laundry, one of her favorite activities, and suddenly found herself on the floor. She couldn’t remember exactly how it happened....
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Words of Wisdom
Today Words of Wisdom, a web site connecting people who read and write blogs, is highlighting Go Ask Alice…When She’s 94. I want to thank Sandy and Pam, who run the Words of Wisdom site, and I’d like...
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As the Cap Turns
“I went out one door and blew in another,” Alice told me after she tried going out for a walk on an especially gusty day last week. She’s been feeling upbeat about her sister Pearl’s return from the...
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Alice, aka Johnny Boy
Alice and her family were often visited by Mr. and Mrs. Pletcher, well-off farmers who came into town regularly for supplies. The moment Mr. Pletcher headed off to make his purchases, Mrs. Pletcher...
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Dollar Store Revisited
We were gliding down the soap and lotion aisle of the Dollar Store, Alice with her walker and me with a cart, when she craned her neck, looked around, and asked, “I wonder where they keep the...
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The Two of Us
On Christmas day, I brought Alice a fanciful stocking stuffed with good things, thinking it would bring back memories of her childhood Christmases, but it turned out she’d never had such a thing in all...
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Whatever Libby Wants-With One Exception
Last week a plump 94-year-old woman named Libby sat down in Irene’s empty chair in the dining room. The staff had picked Libby to be Alice’s new dining partner. It’s not going well. After Irene died, a...
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Sex and the North Wind
Lately, Alice has been forcing herself to read books that feature devout Christian women trapped on remote homesteads during Dakota blizzards in the 1800s. Frost thick as cake icing covers every...
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Elton Rising
Sometimes I am only a bubble on the surface of Alice’s stream of consciousness. For example, the other day the phone rang while I was paying some bills. I saw on caller ID that it was Alice. I always...
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One Good Thing
Sometimes nothing helps the I’m-97-Years-Old-Dammit blues. You can’t listen to music because your ears don’t work right and the sound is all jumbled. You can’t watch a movie because the closed...
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Hard Times
Alice and I took a trip to ER on Friday and almost went again on Sunday. The details are similar to the health event last spring but with the added scare of her mind shutting off for a while. She...
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