by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays
The winter sky burned bright with shades of orange on the night he died. It had been rainy and gloomy for the past week but that day, the sunset was strikingly beautiful. It seemed a fitting tribute for the Air Force Navigator, as if the heavens had reached down to...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays
When I started brainstorming for a Christmas blog, one of the ideas that came to me would be to talk to our loved ones and elders. We are all descendants of immigrants, and within our office we have parents from Italy and grandparents from Russia, Ireland and Nova...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Holidays, Uncategorized
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead: Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved:...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays, Uncategorized
In honor of Father’s day this upcoming weekend, forgive me for deviating a bit off-subject (yet again) to write a post about my father. I was crying, looking back I was unreasonable, but at that moment it was consuming my world. It was my senior year of college...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Holidays, Senior Care
This is the second in a series of blogs in honor of Memorial Day. How do you properly convey the story of someone you never met? Whose experiences and memories you only know about from what was handed down to you. My grandfather, Walter Sheridan, passed away when my...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays
In honor of Memorial Day, I hope you’ll forgive me for going a bit off-topic and sharing the true story of a very dear friend of mine. Guten tag! Was für ein schöner Tag! The diminutive communications man said to the soldiers in the foxhole, waving his hand in a...
