The Value Of Life

July 11, 2009 By 2 Comments

All the cliches are true. Life is precious. Life is short. Life is not fair. Life is what you make it.

Let’s talk about it. Life is precious: it is, each moment has a memory, whether it’s a happy one or sad one, or angry one, it is a moment in time. Moments are for memory, for writing, for Memoir. Take a slice of a day, shape it into a memory, and keep it close to your heart.

Life is short: damn right it is. One second can change your life. An accident, a doctor’s report, anything that upsets the balance of your life. Don’t waste time on what could be, or should be, just take what happens and sharpen your attitude. You attitude will get you through the toughest of times. I know, I’ve been there. I wrote Behind The Mask, using moments, documenting feelings and emotions, yet my husband’s sense of humor and my attitude got me through those awful seven years.

Life is not fair. Who ever said it was. Every day is a challenge we have to meet. Sometimes it is like being in a ring, only the ten rounds are never over. You get knocked down every which way. But you have to keep going.

Because life is what you make it. Attitude, perserverance, and love and kisses can help you through anything. Writing about your life is a carthartic process, it heals.

Be thankful for every moment in time. Beef up your attitude. Take good care of yoursef. Be yourself. Love who you are, and be the best you can be.

Keep a grateful list and list everything you are grateful for. See if you can get one hundred things written down on paper. Update the list and keep updating it until you have 200 things you are grateful for.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene Moore

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Catching Up

July 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’m catching up. Shopping to day; Costco, Borders, and Whole Foods. Tomorrow the lawyer, next week doctor appointments.

But, today I found some new websites and they are wonderful. I forgot to write down the names, but come back tomorrow and I will name them.

I’m feeling pretty good, getting things done, papers filed. Now it’s back to writing. I started a book several years ago, and I put it away, thinking I wasn’t ready to write it yet. One of the reasons I stopped, my heroine is too angry. So I think I will have to let the readers know why she is so angry, and then I can start the story. It means giving the reader a lot of information about the heroine at the very beginning, but I think it might be necessary. Otherwise, she won’t be likable.

I am so blessed to be back with my family. My grateful list just grows and grows and grows. As long as we keep our health, we will be fine.

Happiness is in the moment. This moment. The fact that I’m sitting here blogging makes me happy.

Write your memories, keep them close to your heart. Let your families know who you are, who you really are on the inside. Include your self in writing your Memoir.

Give something back. Do a kindness every day. Tell someone something nice. Pick up the phone and call an old friend. Skip the jokes, and write something on the email.

Adopt A Caregiver. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Tell them your friend Helene Moore sent you. Don’t know how a new caregiver feels, read my book, Behind The Mask.

Keep love and kisses in you life. Helene

www.adoptacaregiver.org is now up and running

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Writing Prompts

June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I love doing writing prompts. I must have well over 500 of them and would love to put them into an ebook, but I don’t know how. Yet.

Maybe I’m just trying to jumpstart my own writing.  Here are ten of my First Lines.

1. Why don’t you just spit it out; it’s what you want to do.

2. The mainteance guy came up and did everything I asked; and then some.

3. He looked like a cat burgler, dressed in black; then he lunged at me.

4. My life story in writing is anything but dull.

5. Icy fingers of fear crawled up his neck

6.”Not now, I’m busy,” then she turned and saw the gun pointed at her heart.

7. The sea sparkled as the sun sunk it’s yellow gold circle into the horizon.

8. The leaves of the tree danced in the breeze and then lightening stuck.

9. The report dragged on, but she only wanted the bottom line, so why were they drowning her in paper?

10. Her grandson was her pride and joy, but he didn’t deserve it.

I hope some of you out there will run with one of these lines and make it into a story or essay or poem. Perhaps I will periodically write some more of them here later on.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver in your own community. Bless you. Don’t know how a new caregiver feels, read my secret journal, Behind The Mask, published last year.

Keep love and kisses in your life.

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Support Caregivers

May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Do you have any idea how a new caregiver feels? How alone, scared, and the kind of feeling that no one understands, so there isn’t anyone to talk to?

That is why I published my secret journal, Behind The Mask. So ordinary people can read my book and understand the obstacles that confront the new caregiver.

We were the lucky ones, the doctor changed the Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis seven long hard years later, to Age Associated Memory Impairment. After my book was published, I wanted to give something back, so I started my Adopt A Caregiver journey.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you. There is a caregiver in your own community. Find him/her. Send an email, offer to be their friend.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Easier Days

May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Worked on my writing this morning, that was a great feeling. I really want to finish this book that I’m working on, but I’ve got such a long way to go. Okay, one day at a time.

We went to The Container Store today and ordeed closet organizers. Have to wait abotut three weeks, they are out of stock on some of the drawers we wanted.

Meeting my granddaughter for lunch tomorrow at The District. Should be fun.

There are so many things I want to do, and to learn, but right now, I’ve earned a rest.

It’s also time to call my old friends who live here, and tell them I  am here and want to meet. That will be a fun activity for tomorrow afternoon.

There is nothing else new.

I sold two of my books, Behind The Mask and hope when they finish reading it, they will understand the plight of the caregiver. I also finished the book, Still Alice by Lisa Genova, and she did a superb job with great insight into what thoughts and feelings are present when early onset Alzheimer’s is diagnosed. I strongly recommend this book.

There are new caregivers in your community. Be a good friend, email them, talk to them, just be there for them. They feel so alone and abandoned…

Give the gift that lasts forever, and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Earthquake: 4.7 Welcome To California

May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Sitting in our chairs watching television last night, the whole room started to rattle and shake. It  felt like the whole building was shaking, and believe me those 16 seconds felt like minutes! Welcome to California.  Well, doesn’t matter, I’m here to stay! Family is family, after all and we are closer than ever.

Exciting news: I’ve found a writing buddy. We are exhanging chapters and are reviewing them for each other. Thanks Tamara.

I’m reading a novel called ‘Still Alice’ by Lisa Genova. This book brings back many memories and worries about Alzheimer’s Disease, and about being alone. The caregiver is  alone. That’s why Adopt A Caregiver is so important to me. I can’t wait to get started on making some contacts and speaking to groups, this message is meant to be heard.

There is a caregiver in your community, and he/she is scared, lonely, feels alone and deserted, and is overwhelmed by the responsibilities she has inherited. All it takes is one friend, send an email, explain that you understand/you want to understand, and you will not desert her as so many do. Let her vent, do not judge, encourage her to journal, to open up and talk about what’s on her mind. She won’t want to, but if you stay and become her friend, she/he might open up to you.

If you want to know what it’s like to be in a new caregiver’s shoes, read my book, Behind The Mask, available at Amazon, and on my website. It was my secret journal that I wrote, when my husband was suddenly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Because we were the lucky ones, (seven years later, the doctors changed the diagnosis, and today my husband is fine) I’ve decided to spend the rest of my life supporting caregivers.

Give the gift that lasts forever, and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Long Nap; Still Tired

May 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I took a long nap today, but somehow I’m still tired. I think I need  a week off to recuperate from all the moving process. My body still hurts also.

I’m starting to look for contacts for Adopt A Caregiver. I’m starting to think about that more, now that most of the apartment is finished. I still have to do closet organizers, but that’s a nothing job since the Container Store has organizers that don’t have to be built in. (I’m in an apartment, and they want nothing attached to the walls.)

I’m also starting to think about writing again. It’s about time.

Tomorrow I’m going shopping for shoes with my granddaughter and daughter. I lost my walking shoes? I threw them out? They are somewhere hiding? I have no idea, but my feet are hurting, and I need to look for comfortable walking shoes.

So, all in all, today was a restful day.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Don’t know what a caregiver is feeling, order my book, Behind The Mask and you will see all my thoughts and emotions during the seven years my husband had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Errands and Rearranging

May 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We did a bunch of errands this morning and by the time we came home and put things away it was way past lunch time. I made a salad with turkey breast which was pretty good.

Then I rearranged my kitchen so that things I needed were easier for me to reach.

While we were out, I forgot to buy a local newspaper to find out what’s going on here in Orange County. I need to start a whole new list of contacts for Adopt A Caregiver.

It’s so easy to find someone in your own community who is a new caregiver and just think how much you can help. All you have to do is be an email friend. Care about them, encourage them to vent, to talk, to visit.

My book, Behind The Mask is my secret journal written when my husband was suddenly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 1993, and thank goodness, in 2000 the changed the diagnosis. This book gave me the idea of my new journey. Adopt A Caregiver.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Getting Done

May 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’ve accomplished so much since moving here on Thursday. We even relaxed today for a little while. Worked on my office this morning for several hours, then did some much needed errands, came home, ate a very late lunch and I rested my eyes for about an hour.

I have to get back to writing, but .. well, there shouldn’t be a but. I will do some writing tomorrow. I have several thank you’s to write and I have to resume journaling again. I can’t remember the last time I wrote in my journal.

Time to get myself in gear.

Time to start looking in the newspaper and collecting material for Adopt A Caregiver.

There is a new caregiver in your community, look for her/him, and put yourself in their shoes. Can’t do that, my book, Behind The Mask, is a good way to start. Check my website.

Then give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Closet, Paperwork, And AA

April 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Busy day tomorrow, have to start working on packing up my closet. I have neglected paperwork for abot two weeks and have to do it, so I might as well get started on it tomorrow.

The good news is that I have Anthem Authors to go to in the afternoon. That will brighten my day.

Today we went to Costco for food, and then went to U Haul to get more boxes! There are boxes everywhere. But that is progress.

Thanks again to The Bloom Report for that terrific ad for my book, Behind The Mask. My secret journal shows what it’s like to stand in the caregivers shoes.

I’ve started thinking about Adopt A Caregiver again, and I have a whole new city and state to work in. Wow! I am so conscious of all caregivers, and all they go through each and every day, and I know there are caregivers in your community. It only takes a moment to send an email, become their friend, be a supporter. I want everyone to know what Adopt A Caregive is about. It’s so easy. Every community has caregivers, give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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