chatty, that's the best poem I've seen about aging. I'm sure all of us can relate.

anne, what fun to go back and read what you'd written so long ago. I have some of my old diaries. I might have to drag them out of the attic.

I can totally relate to the one about you and your patient. Alzheimer's is a ridiculous disease. We've not been able to find any rhyme or reason to the way our loved one acts. There are occasional smiles and kindness, then anger, frustration, paranoia, and more. BUt we never know what the mood will be or why it's the mood of the day. It's pitiful.