Archive of My Posts

Below is an archive of all my posts to date, starting in September 2015. This also includes the posts I’d written prior to the launch of my book a year later. To read any of them, click on the title shown. This archive will be updated on an ongoing basis.

Thanks, Carlen
carlen@carlenmaddux.com

PRE-LAUNCH POSTS…

WEEKLY POSTS...

09.18.15… Where’s the Joy in an Unimaginable Tragedy?
09.25.15… Finding Unexpected Gifts Deep in a Crisis

10.02.15… At 52, I learned What Real Fear Is
10.09.15… The Power of Art and Poetry in a Crisis
10.16.15… Why I Started a Blog-Newsletter
10.23.15… How Keeping a Journal Helped Save My Life
10.30.15… Why I Spent 300 Days in a Monastery

11.06.15… We Were On This Path All Along, but I Didn’t Realize It
11.13.15… What Would I, at 70, Tell Me at 40?
11.20.15… My One Regret
11.27.15… A Thanksgiving Memory

12.04.15… The Latest News on My Book
12.11.15… The Hardest Thing I Ever Had to Do
12.18.15… A Christmas Memory

01.08.16… Why Your Story Calls Out Mine, and Mine Yours
01.15.16… “That’s My Mom, Bringing Joy to Others”
01.22.16… Why Didn’t I Just Accept Our Fate, and Live with It?
01.29.16… Thomas Merton, Me, and My Free Book Giveaway

02.05.16… What a Doctor Prescribes on Learning He Has Alzheimer’s
02.12.16… How Learning to Forgive Changed My Life—Fr. Matthew Kelty
02.19.16… How My Book Is Being Launched
02.26.16… The Monk of Mercy and My Next Book Giveaway

03.04.16… How a Friend Found Meaning in a Job Loss
03.11.16… “I Didn’t Say It Was Easy, Carlen. I Said It Works”
03.18.16… “To Say Anything More Is Dangerous”
03.25.16… Peering into Anne Lamott’s Weirdly Joyous World

04.01.16… Is Alzheimer’s a Baby-Boomer’s Greatest Fear?
04.08.16… What Is the Caregiver’s First Commandment?
04.15.16… Why Alzheimer's Can Shred Your Confidence
04.22.16... A Quick Update on My Book

05.06.16... Five Top Tips When Caring for One You Love
05.13.16… A Sampling of My Readings Along the Way
05.26.16... May I Ask You for a Special Favor?

06.09.16… A Few Simple (and Effective) Tips from My Wife’s Caregiver
06.23.16… Do You Want to See My Book’s Cover?

        07.07.16… Discovering a Bedrock Hope When I Was Most Desperate        
        07.21.16… Why Have These People Not Given Up?

08.04.16... Surprise! Now You Can Pre-order My Book on Amazon
08.18.16... Our Community's Surge in Interest, Strength, and Influence

09.01.16... Somewhere Over the Rainbow
09.13.16... You Can Win a Free Copy of My Book
09.28.16… ‘A Path Revealed’ Is Now Released

10.21.16... What Are People Saying About My Book?
11.10.16... Why Did I Start Searching, and What Was I Looking For?
11.23.16... A Thanksgiving Memory Redux

12.08.16... Five Simple Questions, No Easy Answers
12.22.16... May I Share with You These Entries from My Journal?

01.05.17... Why Being Gentle with Yourself Can Be So Hard
01.19.17... A Friend Asks About Our Odyssey Through Alzheimer's

02.02.17... What This Doctor Is Learning About Caregiving
02.16.17... It's About Quality of Life, Not Quantity

03.02.17... Desperate, I Needed to Be Quiet and Still
03.16.17... A Thank You Note from Me to You
03.30.17... Will You Help Me?

04.13.17... May I Introduce You to One of My Heroes?
04.27.17... One Year Later: This Doctor with Alzheimer's Diagnoses His Progress

06.01.17... What I Heard on My Book Tour
06.22.17... Are You Going to Love Me Forever and Ever?

07.13.17... Eight Ways You Can Help a Friend Trapped by Alzheimer's
08.13.17... A Buddhist, a Christian, and a Jew Go to a Birthday Party
08.24.17... A Love Story: Love Means Having to Say Goodbye

09.21.17... Irma, Alzheimer's, Martha and Me
10.12.17... Because That's What Friends Do

11.02.17... My Busy Three Weeks
11.23.17... From One Caregiver to Another

12.14.17... Why He Steps into the World of Alzheimer's 
12.24.17... Remembering the Forgotten

01.18.18... Alzheimer's Communication
01.31.18... After 27 Years, Their Steadfast Dream for an Alzheimer's Stamp Turns True 

03.01.18... How She Learned the Art of Contemplative Care
03.28.18... Why This Neurologist Became a Hospital Chaplain

04.12.18... The New Alzheimer's Stamp Is Off to a Strong Start
05.03.18... Why I Went Public with Our Family's Alzheimer's Story

05.24.18... What More Is This Doctor Doing About His Early Dementia?
06.21.18... A Conversation with My Wife's Neurologist
06.25.18... The Joy of Martha's Art

07.11.18... The Stigma of Dementia: Is the Fog Finally Lifting? 
08.28.18... Her Prayer for All Who Live with Dementia Worldwide

09.20.18… What This Care Partner Is Still Learning Years Later
10.11.18… How Can Forgiveness Improve a Caregiver’s Life?
10.24.18… What His Father Taught This Doctor About Alzheimer’s

11.02.18… “Keep Asking Questions Until You Get the Answers”
12.06.18… Can We Talk? That’s Me at 73 Asking Me at 52
12.27.18… In the Face of Fear, Grace

01.22.19… On Defusing the Stigma of Dementia
02.06.19… “When You Cared for Your Mom, You Stole My Joy”
03.21.19… One Caregiver’s Story: ‘Advocacy Saved My Life’

05.10.19… What the World Needs Now
06.05.19… Out of Deep Despair, a Seasoned Hope

07.26.19… To Test for Genetics, or Not? Read On…
08.08.19… Three Voices of Encouragement
08.28.19… Illuminating the Dark Heart of Dementia

09.13.19… 31 Lessons Learned from Persons Living with Dementia & Care Partners
09.25.19… “You either get on with living, or get on with dying. I’m getting on with living.
10.16.19… The Joy in Knowing and in Being Known

11.08.19… Pay It Forward: From One Caregiver to the Next
12.18.19… Her Strategies for Living Day to Day with Alzheimer’s
12.24.19… Grieving at Christmas

01.16.20… Why Sharing Our Stories Is So Important
02.05.20… ‘The Lessons My Mother Taught Me on Our 30-Year Journey’
05.14.20… Emerging from a Hard Season of Dementia, Pandemic, and Death

06.18.20… Let Me Breathe!
08.13.20… You’re Smart to Be Alert to This Hidden Grief
10.01.20… The Countdown Begins: Day 5-4-3-2-1

11.11.20… A Hard Thing for Me to Learn as a Caregiver
11.24.20… Our First Thanksgiving
12.17.20… A Prayer for the Caregiver’s Struggle this Holiday Season