One Of My Rambling Writings

July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Out Of The Box

by Helene Moore

The box is a metaphor of life. I used to be in a box and no, it wasn’t fun. Dwelling in the past dredges up old painful memories, and a few good memories.

But now, life is beautiful. No longer is my inner self hidden away in a box. I am free. Free to soar, to speak freely, and to make amazing new memories.

I’m even free to be a kid again. To remember the good memories, few as they were at times when I was young.

I like the new me. My best qualities are still hanging around with my permission, and those oher qualities are allowed to come out and play, but under restrictions.

I try not to allow anger and mistrust o fill my days. Those thoughts fly in and are blown out gently but firmly.

Instead I have the time to make each and every day a day filled with love and sunshine.

The box sits inside, empty, tied with a purple ribbon. I’d gladly give it away, but I need it to remind me of who I am, where I’ve come from and where I’m going.”

Just one of my ramblings as I call them. Pick a word or phrase and let the words fly out on the paper.

Remember to keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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The Birthday Girl

July 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This birthday woman had a great day. Brunch with the family and everyone came and we had a good time talking and eating.

Now I’m as old as my husband, until August 18th. 78 years young. Our bodies may be falling apart, but we ae young at heart and still doing the things we love. That’s important, at any age.

I’ve pulled out some of my writing, and it will be slow going, but I’m sticking to it this time. I don’t have too much time to waste any more.

I will still make time to support caregivers. My www.adoptacaregiver.org is up and running. I’m starting to speak to people and make some contacts.

I encourage caregivers to vent, on paper, write out their fears, anger, whatever is bothering them. It’s so carthartic. It’s a healing process unlike any other.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Look in your own community and find a caregiver to adopt. The rewards are many.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Big Day Tomorrow

July 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s my birthday tomorrow. That’s a big day. I will be 78, and birthdays are every day at my age. I love it.

I can do what I want, when I want, except for the doctors, lawyers, medical tests, and errands that need to be done.

I pulled out a big project yesterday. I found all my writing, (I hope) and put it into drawers so that I know where it is and I want to get to all the writing. My problem is I write, put it away, and I don’t edit it or do anything with it. It’s time to do something with it.

I’m working on a book. The beginning has had me stumped for years, but I think I know how to fix it now. And I need to keep working on it, and not put it away for a few years and then not know where it it.

So. my birthday resolution is to WRITE. My book, my Memoirs, my short stories, and a few poems. And I do some writing I call Ramblings. I take a word like: inspiration or courage or a cell phone and I just keep writing until I have no more words left. I’ll post one of them here one day soon.

My new www.adoptacaregiver.org is up and running, please visit.

I told you the other day about a few websites I love.

www.tenderlovingeldercare.com

www.bloggingwithoutablog.com

Especially look at www.tenderlovingeldercare and read the eulogy Linda wrote about her Mom who passed away a short while ago.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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I'm Learning

June 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Finished rearranging my closet this afternoon, that was a job. Tomorrow I will do my office closet, that won’t nearly be as big a job, but I want to get it done.

I’m signing up for a writing course at UCI in June. That’s exciting for me. I’m going to try and look up an old friend of my, a writing buddy and see if we can reconnect.

This day flew by. At least I accomplished a lot of things.

Tomorrow I’m working on Adopt A Caregiver. I have several things to do and I need to get started on them.

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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The Apartment is Finished!

June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Yes, it’s finished. The closet organizers are in, the pictures are all hung up, and I have to say, it looks great. The kids did a fantastic job, they were such a help. We couldn’t have done it without them.

I love being back here with my family. It’s just been so special, it’s hard to explain.

Everyone has helped. My daughter in law came over last night and stayed for over three hours working on my computer emails. She had to call Cox twice, but she got it done.

Now, I’m behind in everything else. I have to put the clothes away in the closet and the stuff away in my office. I have to work on two stories my friends have asked me to look at. I have to work on the text for my Adopt A Caregiver page, and I need to answer some letters. One or two that are important.

I’m working my way into my new journey of Adopt A Caregiver. They are in your neighborhood and they need our support and friendship. Please, 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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I Miss Writing

April 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I miss writing! I miss the thoughts and the ideas that come to me when I’m ready to write. Soon, I hope. Maybe I’ll find a time during the weekend, as I have part of a memoir story I want to write. It’s about the contrast when Howard and I were first engaged, and I met his extended family, and he met my extended family. Huge contrasts.

Over this weekend, I will tackle my closet. The hard part is done. Just have to pack it up. Same with the kitchen, we weeded out a lot of things we haven’t used in years, and what’s left can be packed except for the few pots and pans and dishes we will be using for the next 5 weeks or so.

In the meantime, please support the caregivers in your community. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you. Just write an email, be their friend.

If you don’t know how a caregiver feels, read my secret journal,  Behind The Mask, and stand in the caregivers shoes for a few hours.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Missed AA Today

April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I missed going to Anthem Authors today, I thought I’d be able to manage it, but it didn’t happen. Oh well, there is next week. I haven’t written anything to read anyway, so it can wait a week. I am going to miss everyone at Anthem Authors, and will continue to be in touch and look at their website often.

Now, I am finally free to pack up everything in the house, except what we will need for the next 35-40 days. I’m hoping we will be finished packing by the 17th of April. It is exhausting work, but I think we can manage it.

There are so many things left to do, change of address, packing, thinking about what to take, what to leave here, and decisions galore.  One at a time, one day at a time.

I’m grateful that we are able to manage it ourselves so far.

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

Keep love and kisses in you life. Helene

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Life Is Never Boring

January 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

My life is never boring. My problem is me; I want to do everything. I have been especially creative these past few days. Thinking about my story and how to fix it. Someone suggested I put up my writing here, so it could be critiqued. I would do that, except for one thing. If it’s a long story, or a book, and I put up the first page or pages, you might think the story is going in one direction when in truth, it’s going in a different direction. Not sure how to address that, so when I understand how, I will start putting some of my writing here. In the meantime, our Sun City Anthem Authors is up and running. It’s still in it’s beginning stage, so there isn’t much on there .. yet. In the coming weeks, I should have two or three short stories or poems up on the site — www.AnthemAuthors.com

The other half of me works on Adopt A Caregiver. A wonderful job that makes me smile. If only I could get everyone to Adopt A Caregiver. They are all around us, everywhere in our community. Seek them out, they need a friend. Tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

If you don’t know what it’s like to stand in a caregivers shoes, read my book, Behind The Mask

Tomorrow I’ll put another excerpt from my book here. Look for it.

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Sunday: Balance

January 19, 2009 By 2 Comments

My Sundays have always been my catch up day, even to just catch up on a nap. Filing papers away, reading, knitting and sometimes writing. Notice I didn’t mention cleaning or cooking.

Yesterday at RWA (Romance Writers of America) I was inspired to come home and look over an old story I started in 2002. I think parts of it are good, some of my scenes are very emotional, but too short. My heroine is angry, too angry. So yesterday I found out that a book can be about ‘man facing man’. Or in my case my heroine facing herself. I find this kind of writing exhausting; maybe I’m just old, but I want to convey her story  by making her a whole human being.

I rewrote the first page today. An excerpt she wrote into her diary. I have to run it by my writing group and see what they say.

You can go to www.AnthemAuthors.com.  Our Sun City Anthem website is finally up, and is just starting to receive our stories. You can go there any time if you want to read some of them. I know a lot of seniors, caregivers who can’t get out, and the t.v. and the computer are their only friends.

That why I started an Adopt A Caregiver program. Everyone in a community knows a caregiver. Just send an email, offer to be their friend. Sometimes they have no one else to talk to. If you want to know what it feels like to stand in a new caregivers shoes, read my book, Behind The Mask. This was written in secret because we were strongly advised not to tell anyone when my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 1993. Thank God, seven years later, they changed the diagnosis and took him off all the drugs, and I finally showed him my secret journal, and he said, “Publish it, it might help someone else.”

That is how Adopt A Caregiver started. I want to give back.I want to wipe away the caregivers tears.

I call it; 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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Knitting And Other Hobbies

January 5, 2009 By 1 Comment

Knitters, quilters, artists, craftspeople, all have one thing in common. So much stuff! I’ve been cleaning out my office, and today I decided to go after my yarns and knitting projects.

I used to do lots of knitting back in the 70′s because my friend owned a knitting store, and everything fit me perfectly. Also, I handed her the back, two fronts, and two sleeves and she finished off the neckline and the edges, and whatever else had to be done. I can’t sew. I don’t want to sew, bu I like to knit.

Recently a knitting store opened near my house and I was estatic. More color, more yarns, more to do, like I don’t have enough to do. I’m 77 years old, and I’m always doing something. For me knitting, easy knitting, is relaxing.

It took me most of the entire day, to go through every bag of yarn, to rip out old stuff that I didn’t like, or wouldn’t fit and put it all away, neatly.

Since I spend most of my days doing something for or about Adopt A Caregiver, a lot of time reading other blogs, and of course checking my statistics often, when will I have time to knit? Well, I decided at night, while watching tv. with my husband Howard, when we watch a movie together, then I can knit for a couple of hours. That is why I like easy. I have three hats I want to make, a couple of shells for myself, and many other projects too numerous to name. Yet everyone I know who does a craft tells me the same things, they have stashes of stuff in rooms, closets, cabinets, so I know I’m not alone.

I wonder if caregivers could or would find some time to knit? It is relaxing. I have to ask my caregiver friends. Are you a caregiver, would you knit if you could find some spare time? I think writing and knitting are relaxing, and theraputic. We all need some therapy at times.

To all my caregiver friends, hang in there, I’m working on Adopt A Caregiver as much as I can, and one day, hopefully, my vision will be a reality. Every caregiver will have a friend, someone to talk to, to vent to, and to share their day with them.

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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