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TD & Big G's Colorado Adventures
Posted 10 months ago

Merry Christmas from Big G!

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TD & Big G's Colorado Adventures
Posted 11 months ago

TD's Book Sneak Peak. (Copywrited)

Title: Good Night Mom and Dad: How Boomers are Taking Care of Terminally Ill Parents

Summary: Both of my parents passed away after battling cancer. Over the last 30 years, I've organized my writing into a book. A story begins with a great question. But that’s not enough. The question has to be compelling enough that it’s worth answering well. I have such a question with Good Night, namely how do families take care of terminally ill parents? For all of our societal differences, and more come into the public conversation regularly, some questions come to all of us regardless of our religious or political views. We come up with different answers, but the same questions challenge us; even if they come at different times in our lives. And that’s the crux of the book you are reading, how do you take care of your terminally ill parent? There are plenty of other questions that arise from this first question. I’ll address each of them. If you’ve already experienced taking care of parent, or you are taking care of one now, you’ll be familiar with them. I've categorized my experience into categories that I will unpack in the book. You'll recognize many of them:

1-Medical- Who learns, examines, and distributes the medical terminology and treatment options of your parent to them and to your extended family?

2-Emotional-How do you manage the day-to-day, life changing and longer term series of emotions, many of which you have never experienced before?

3-Family-How does the family structure change once a parent has died? What does the new one look like? How does all of this affect your spouse, and immediate family?

4-Financial-What to expect with insurance issues. How does a family navigate competing interests in estate allocation?

5-Physcial and Mental- How do you maintain your health during an emotional crisis?

6-Temporal- How does your perspective on Time and Mortality change? How do you grieve, and how do you recover?

7-Communcation- Who discusses and communicates relevant family information; how does that communication change family dynamics?

8-Spritual- What happens to relationships when there are conflicting Spiritual beliefs?

9-Conclusion- What do the sum total of experiences mean? What learning can be applied?

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TD & Big G's Colorado Adventures
Posted 11 months ago

Big G entering the Coliseum....

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TD & Big G's Colorado Adventures
Posted 11 months ago

1,000 Questions from Save the Wisdom Project Version 5.0.

1. What is your most treasured childhood memory?
I picked two. Getting that magnificent 5 speed Schwinn Sting Ray for my birthday. Dark Green with the iconic Schwinn written on the down tube. The banana seat, sissy bar and fat tire rear wheel were the coolest things I’d ever seen. And it was mine. In a time where everything I had, my personal space, my clothes and time always seemed to be shared, here was something that was all mine. The bike was stolen off our front porch a few weeks after I got it. I was crushed. How could anyone do that? Wouldn’t they feel awful knowing how sad I was that they stole my bike?

The other memory I have is getting the Super Bowl Electric football game for Christmas. The game itself was a part of the larger holiday, Christmas that was aways incredibly special. Thinking back just on the electric football game, I remember how well it was wrapped. It was the largest present under the tree. We had moved into our brand-new home in Lewisville that year. There were so many presents for all of us. So many. There were already 10 Dennings not including mom and dad. And everybody had multiple presents. The stockings were stuffed with candy. Word search games. Yoyo's. a deck of cards. Comic books, whatever could fit in a stocking, was in one. Looking back, that probably bought Mom and Dad some extra time to sleep in before we all gathered around the tree to open presents.

I remember walking out to the tree and seeing this giant box " Super Bowl Electric Football game" wrapped up with this enormous red bow. The name tag said “Tommy”. That may have been the most excited I had ever been at that point of my life. I was 9 and half years old at the time. Honorable mention: My tenth birthday present of getting my first puppy.

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