Travels with Myself

A Journal of Discovery and Transition
Doug Jordan, Author

Idiosyncratia

25.5 When Is Spring?

There are many ways we northerners, hungering for warmer weather, have to forecast Spring. All these prophesy mechanisms may be flawed, even my misplaced faith in Wiarton Willi. But for me the surest sign we have of impending Spring is the switch to Daylight Saving Time.

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Dementia/Alzheimer's

25.4 A Journey With Dementia 4 – MISSING

On Christmas Eve morning, at about 10:30, Brian said he was going for a drive. I said that his son and family were coming for lunch at 11:00 and asked that he not go. To no avail, Brian didn’t want to have anything to do with Christmas and he wanted to leave.
He was gone for 27 hours.

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Books by Doug Jordan

25.03 Humour in Writing, Writing Humour

Writing well is hard enough, but to write something funny is seriously difficult. Indeed, much of the humour we see on paper is mostly cartoon-assisted text. And even much of that will depend on the mind of the reader

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Dementia/Alzheimer's

25.02 A Journey With Dementia 3 – DRIVING

As we readied to leave the doctor’s office, Doc held me back and told me to hide the car keys. This was singularly unhelpful advice but for the sake of our, and community safety, I hid the keys, even disabled the spare key. 

OH MY FREAKIN’ ANCESTORS !! My wonderful man turned into Angry Bird.

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Thoughts on Writing/Publishing

25.01 To Blog, or Not to Blog?

Writing the blog twice a month takes real effort, and the pressure of a deadline (each 15th and 30th of the month) becomes somewhat stressful (oscillating between eustress and dystress)

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