Stories that Bridge Heart and Heaven
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 →
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 →
It’s not like we had a definitive plan. There was no clear-cut direction to help my mother’s ninety-one-year-old friend; no desert grace to guide us on a desert journey (refer Continue Reading →
It’s been a long pause since my last blog post in March 2021 on Lent Recalibrates Relationships (https://carolinmparadis.com/2021/02/28/lent-recalibrates-relationships/). It’s not what I intended, but I have good reasons. I was Continue Reading →