Our journey began in 2005, and the years since then have been filled with surprises, challenges, grief—and blessings. Many blessings.

Holding tight to the past is not a strategy that brings peace. I learned an important lesson from a caregiver friend.

No matter how I sacrifice or what I know, love is the key that gives caregiving its power.

Before I could ask her, my friend volunteered to solve the problem I couldn’t figure out how to handle. God answered my prayer when I hadn’t even prayed it!

The song doesn’t describe how our life has turned out. But it does describe the commitment I’m holding on to.

Maybe you can use the advice from the magazine article I should have read several years ago: “The ultimate guide to building resilience so you can bounce back from tough times.”

I really wanted to care for my dad. But I found myself with a bad attitude trying to handle all the new responsibilities. What could I do?

Our nurturing weekend with friends has become an annual tradition. But when will it be time for us to give it up?

I’ll count it as a blessing that one gift of caregiving is seeing life with clearer perspective.

“It’s easy to stay in denial,” I admitted to him with quivering voice when he gave us the test results that day. And it’s still easy. Even easier, I’m deciding, to be in denial about being in denial.

Not only do most Americans worship success, but they are also haunted by failure. What does this mean for the caregiver when his world is reduced to helping someone survive?

If a picture can be worth a thousand words, maybe several pictures can take the place of the 750 or so I write here every Wednesday. Snapshots from a summer visit here . . .

Along with the tears have come several smiles. Even living with Alzheimer’s, I’m learning to nurture a sense of humor.

I never would have imagined the unparalleled rugged splendor comprising this corner of the Canadian Rockies. And I never would have planned to see it without Evelyn.

For the sake of memory, I want to share here a couple of the unbidden tributes to Evelyn that have come from readers of this blog.

“There’s no future in going down the ‘if-only’ rabbit hole,” she told me. And now, years later, I’m coming to understand what good advice that was.

Amid all the hubbub about abortion in the national conversation today, I’ve made a decision about myself and several others I know. Caregivers are pro-life.

I’ve formed a playlist called “Comfort.” That’s exactly what I find when I play songs from it.

As I’ve taken up the duties my wife handled without fanfare, I’m almost overwhelmed with how much I took for granted.

Soon after we received the diagnosis, a friend knew I needed this book. Now I recommend it to anyone I know facing unanswered questions.