Stories that Bridge Heart and Heaven
It was 6:00 o’clock Saturday evening. With headphones secured on my head, and my computer fired up and tuned into You Tube, I was ready. My daughter bustled making dinner Continue Reading →
Yesterday evening, and delayed by a week, The 2024 Word Guild’s Annual Awards announced the winners. Another deserving author, Susanne Dobbin, won for her book Raising the Dead in the category Continue Reading →
Good news, dear readers! I am excited to share that my manuscript “God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places” was short listed for The Word Guild 2024 Annual Awards under Continue Reading →
Making my way along a carpeted hallway, I admired the bucolic prints of warm-hearted country scenes adorning the walls between suites. Moving at a brisk pace so as not to Continue Reading →
The burden of my choice weighed heavily. An impulse decision to help an aged friend had landed me in a desert landscape riddled with desert guilt. My insides gnawed. I Continue Reading →
Before leaving Montreal for a desert drive to Toronto, we stopped by a Jean Coutu to fill Pam’s rehab hospital prescription (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/17/desert-luck/). The diversion to a pharmacy was Continue Reading →
“Okay, I got lucky. Humber Heights has a room. At least we have one good thing happening in this pandemic.” It was desert luck (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/10/desert-decision/). My cousin Sue, Continue Reading →
Finally, a breakthrough. A desert decision. Decades as a head nurse deferring to doctors’ directives is likely what distilled Pam’s stubborn independence (refer to backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/03/desert-dementia/). Dorothée made headway with Continue Reading →
In a desert, lost people deprived of shelter and water hallucinate. Minds deteriorate and perceptions dim to desert dementia. The Pandemic did that to older people. Social and physical loss Continue Reading →
Arriving in Montreal as desert strangers to help my mother’s aged and hospitalized friendꟷa fellow retired nurse from Englandꟷit wasn’t long before we sorted roles (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/desert-grace/2024/02/18/). My sister-in-law Continue Reading →