by jphilo | Dec 5, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook, Vlog Series
The Caregiver’s Notebook vlog series is here today with episode 5. The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others was officially released by Discovery House Publishers on November 1, 2014. This series began shortly thereafter to provide extra support to caregivers. If you’d like to access previous episodes in the series, type “The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series” in the search box at the top of the page.
Who Should Watch The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series?
This series and the notebook were both designed for caregivers in many different situations. You may be an adult child caring for aging parents, a spouse caring for a husband or wife, or you may be parents caring for babies, toddlers, young children, and teens with special needs. Or, your caregiving situation may be that of a parent caring for adult children with special needs or for typical babies from birth through age 3. Or you may be senior citizens in good health who want to have your affairs in order for whoever will care for you in case of sudden illness or accident.
The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series Episode 5: Notes about Notes
This episode explains how caregivers can use the lined note pages. Now, you might not think there’s much to say about blank pages in the notebooks. But those blank pages are just what you may need to fill in the blanks of your caregiving situation.
So click this link to watch episode 5 at Gravel Road’s sister site, DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Nov 28, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook, Vlog Series
Hello again and welcome to episode 4 in The Caregiver’s Notebook vlog series. The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others was officially released by Discovery House Publishers on November 1, 2014. This series began a week later as a way to offer support to caregivers and relieve their stress. To access previous episodes in the series, type “The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series” in the search box at the top of the page.
What Kinds of Caregivers?
This book was designed to be used by caregivers in a variety of different situations. It works for adult children caring for aging parents, spouses caring for husbands or wives, and for parents caring for babies, toddlers, young children, and teens with special needs. It also can be used by parents caring for adult children with special needs, parents caring for typical babies from birth through age 3, and by senior citizens in good health who want to have their affairs in order for whoever will care for them in case of sudden illness or accident.
The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series Episode 4: Contact Tips
In this episode, caregivers learn how to customize the contact section to keep track of family members, personal friends, professionals, organizations, and anyone else important to your loved one’s life and care. This episode shares tips about how to find and record the names and numbers of people who can quickly carry your message to doctors and other professionals. It also offers hints about how to gather contact information and who should be included as a contact.
Click here to view episode 4 on The Gravel Road’s sister site, DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Nov 21, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook, Vlog Series
The Caregiver’s Notebook vlog series is here today with episode 3 in the series. The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others was officially released by Discovery House Publishers on November 1, 2014. This series began a week later as a way to offer support to caregivers and relieve their stress.
What Kinds of Caregivers?
The notebook was designed to be versatile enough for a variety of caregiving scenarios. It works for adult children caring for aging parents, spouses caring for husbands or wives, and for parents caring for babies, toddlers, young children, and teens with special needs. It also can be used by parents caring for adult children with special needs, parents caring for typical babies from birth through age 3, and by senior citizens in good health who want to have their affairs in order for whoever will care for them in case of sudden illness or accident.
The Caregiver’s Notebook Vlog Series Episode 3: Calendar How Tos
In this episode, caregivers learn how to customize the 3 year calendar to best meet their caregiving needs. You’ll learn when to start using it, how to keep it up-to-date, and how to log information so it can be used as documentation for insurance companies and health care providers. With that, it’s time to watch episode 3.
Click here to view this vlog episode at my sister site DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Nov 8, 2013 | Mystery Update
Remember Run, Jane, Run!, the mystery I’m writing? On account of which I road tripped to northwestern South Dakota in September? The one I promised to post updates about on a regular basis? Well here’s the first one. Progress is slow.
Very slow.
My best efforts to carve out chunks of time large to enter the story world and stay there for hours have been stymied at every turn. Partly because of catching up after the trip out west. Partly because of the Camp Dorothy Oktoberfest celebration. Partly because of other writing deadlines. Partly because of an October week in Grand Rapids, Michigan and recovering from it. Partly because of housework and thinking up reasons to avoid dusting. Whatever the reason, progress is slow.
So slow it could be time to rename the book, See Jane Crawl!
The pace won’t pick up anytime soon, since this week is dedicated to much anticipated grandma duty and other family fun, followed by work on a book under contract, followed by the holiday season, followed by…well, you get the idea. Progress is slow.
As slow as driving on gravel roads in northwest South Dakota.
But, that’s no reason to give up. Because the holiday season is followed by January and February, the best months for writers to hunker down, get lost in story world day after day, and write away. But until then…
Crawl, Jane, Crawl!
by jphilo | Apr 23, 2012 | Daily Life
My rhubarb life is spinning out of control this morning. I blame my present chaos on the recent mild winter. This is not the first time the Winter of 2012 has invaded my personal space. Last week, I renamed March and April as Marpril, thanks to the great Early Spring Weather Flip Flop of 2012. Blissfully ignorant of nature’s wiles, I also suggested Maypril as a new name for April and May if the weather hijinks continued, never expecting to put it to use already. But today, the announcement must be made.
Maypril is here!
How do I know? Because it’s time to pick the rhubarb. All last week, before leaving for the Accessibility Summit in the Washington, DC area, I denied the truth. Over and over, I told myself it was still Marpril and nobody in this part of the country picks rhubarb in Marpril. Picking the rhubarb in Marpril would weaken it. Kill it even.
I didn’t want rhubarbacide on my rap sheet.
But when I returned from the Summit (more on that trip tomorrow), the rhubarb – egged on by the Winter of 2012 and the great Early Spring Weather Flip Flop of 2012 – threw it’s version of a tantrum, determined to gain my attention. The rhubarb sent up seed pods. Unheard of in March, April, or Marpril. But common in May. Except May is two weeks away.
Which means it’s Maypril.
So this morning, though my desk is covered with business expense receipts to file and record, though trips to the grocery store and bank are in order, though my inbox is overflowing with emails to answer, though the dirty laundry pile grows as unpacking progresses, though there’s cooking and baking to do…I’m hacking off seedpods and picking rhubarb. Because my mama always sent me out to cut off those seed pods and pick the rhubarb so it would keep producing until the weather turned hot and dry. But the seedpods never sprouted in April. Always in May.
Which means its Maypril. The month when life spins out of control.
Or will feel out of control until my desk is cleared off, the errands are run, the emails are answered, the laundry’s done, the get basic cooking and baking is finished, and there’s time to make a rhubarb-strawberry crisp. Then maybe I’ll like Maypril as much as I liked May evenings when my mom served rhubarb crisp for desserts, when my dad winked and said, “Maybe you better not eat that, Jo-Jo. Maybe you better give it to me so I can see if your piece is as good as mine was,” when my brother and sister and I giggled because it was rhubarb season, and our parents were happy.
Then, I’ll welcome Maypril.
