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#HAWMC #Sunday Selfie #Marriage #Caregiver
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30-Day Writing Challenge, Day 27 “Sunday Selfie: Post your favorite picture of yourself. Don’t be shy, it’s time to shine!” This is easy. My wedding day. Not a selfie. It’s my favorite picture of myself because I … Continue reading
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#HAWMC #TBI #Writing ” I write, therefore I am.” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30-Day Writing Challenge, Day 20 “What has been the highlight of your health activist journey? We want to hear all about it, perhaps a conference, a podcast or meeting a fellow HA. What made this experience so … Continue reading
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#HAWMC #Beauty #Writer ” I am uniquely beautiful.” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30-Day Writing Challenge, Day 21 “Monday Motivation: What’s your life slogan? Explain what words or mantra that keep you going.” So if you have been reading all month, then you know that my mantra is, ” I … Continue reading
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#HAWMC “Advice For The Health Advocate Rookie” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30 Day Writing Challenge Day 16 “Wisdom Wednesday: What advice do you have for health activists just starting out? Share your words of wisdom for all the health activist rookies out there!” Okay, here’s my opinion. … Continue reading
#HAWMC “Favorite Health Advocates for TBI” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30 Day Writing Challenge Day 15 “Time to spread the love. Shout out all your favorite HA’s! Make sure to share a few sentences explaining just how grateful you are for them.” So just because I recently … Continue reading
#HAWMC The White Chocolate Swan by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30 Day Writing Challenge Day 13 “What’s the best thing that happened to you this week? Maybe you got great news or maybe ice cream was on sale- write about it and relive it!” She was a … Continue reading
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#HAWMC A Letter To My Best Healthcare Provider by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30/Day Writing Challenge Day 12 “Time to get real.Write a letter to the best or worst healthcare professional you’ve seen. Don’t hold back!” Dear Sue, When I looked at this Writing Challenge, my first thought was to … Continue reading
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#HAWAC “I think I can…I think I can…Getting in touch with my inner Little Engine.” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30-Day Writing Challenge Day 8 ” Little Engine Post. Write a list post with 10-15 lines that start each with “I think I can…” Write 5 lines at the end that start with “I know I can.” … Continue reading
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HAWMC Day 6 “Wonder Woman” by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist 30 Day Writing Challenge Day 6 “Superpower Sunday! If you had a superpower – what would it be? How would you use it?” This is easy. Do you remember the Micheal Keaton movie “Multipilicity?” He wished for … Continue reading
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#HAWMC WEGOHEALTH Activist Writing Challenge Day 3 by Janice Tindle
The WEGOHEALTH Activist Writing Challenge Day 3 “Quotation Inspiration. Find a quote that inspires you (either positively or negatively) and free write about it for 15 minutes.” This is easy. ” I never give up.” – Janice Tindle For me, … Continue reading
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Dear Lord, Please Grant Me Patience by Janice Tindle
Please grant me patience to deal with my brain, Because the world goes by like a loud freight train. Please grant me patience to deal with my heart, Because I can never seem to finish the projects that I start. … Continue reading
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This Blog just received a WEGO Nomination!
This blog was nominated for Best In Show: Blog! Whoo Hoo! It IS an honor to be nominated! Thank you! Here’s the description: “Whose blog do you absolutely love? Their writing is exceptional, their “voice” admirable, and their writing is … Continue reading
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The Power Of Life by Janice Tindle
The shadows cross at midnight and I am alone again, Behind a curtain of umbiguity I wait for the sunrise. The treacherous hours where my soul cries while the dewdrops form – And quench all new life from the parched … Continue reading
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Goodbye 2015 by Janice Tindle
As I enter into 2016, I do so with great determination, staking my claim on hope. It took five long years of hard work and great courage to meet the challenges of the devastating effects of a misdiagnosis and … Continue reading
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Beyond Hope by Janice Tindle
In the dark, behind the presence of emotion, Absolute stillness and unrelenting silence, I am rhythmically breathing. I am not lost. Even though the darkness envelopes me, I am here. Believe me, your shame is not mine. I am steadfast. … Continue reading
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A Message For Those Who Have A Life Changing Disability by Janice Tindle
“I don’t think I’ll ever be happy again,” is the worst thing you can say to yourself. You WILL be happy again. Tell yourself that. You will. I promise. Maybe not all day long, but you’ll have moments. Everyday, do … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, Disability, dystonia, grief loss, hope, invisable disabilty, migraine, movement disorder, never give up, traumatic brain injury
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Three Is All You Need by Janice Tindle
Three Is All You Need by Janice Tindle. It was first published by Mainline Rehab newsletter March 2012. Then, by Fearless Caregiver #88 then Caregiver Magazine April 2015 in which they used it as the title and republished it again … Continue reading
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Last minute tax deduction – medical care fund here.
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Three Is All You Need by Janice Tindle
Three Is all You Need By Janice Tindle I’ve always been a person who likes to have her ducks in a row. And just like a good mother duck, I was constantly checking, going back when I needed to, keeping … Continue reading
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The Principled Man /Written by Janice Tindle
I was standing in the doorway of my father’s hospital room. He was asleep. He had been there most of the week,so I had become familiar with the nursing staff. His room was just outside their station. I found myself … Continue reading
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The Misunderstanding /Written by Janice Tindle
I have a traumatic brain injury and so I am misunderstood quite often. I am sure it happens to everyone. It hurts when someone misunderstands you, but it hurts even more when you apologize and they refuse to accept your … Continue reading
Who Will Advocate For The Children? /Written by Janice Tindle
A man, is driving along on the street where he lives and he notices two neighbor boys playing with a mid- century chair in their driveway. He approaches them and asks where they got it. They tell him that another … Continue reading
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The Flawed, The Broken, and The Beautiful /Written by Janice Tindle
I recently found myself inspired by a bit of broken pottery. That pottery made me think about the value we place on inanimate objects. Who knows why a certain object has a special attractiveness to us. We see it, we … Continue reading
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Wray; The West End Eagle /Written by Janice Tindle
She came and left like the wind, She would circle high, swoop and descend, In a whirlwind she would appear, She could be far, yet in an instant, near. Under sunny skies, she sat on eggs, Under mist and fog, … Continue reading
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Jesus Knows Me Well by Janice Tindle
In my solitude I pray, The pain is so crippling, so I lay, The softness of the sheets touch my skin, There is an excruciating fire that burns from within. Jesus knows me well. To his Father I pray, So … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible truth, compassion, empathy, end to suffering, hope, Jesus, Kingdom of God, kingship, Paradise, power, Revelevation 21:3, righteousness, sacrifice, sympathy
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The Organic Sinner /Written by Janice Tindle
In the book, Critters: Adventures In Wildest Suburbia by A.B.C. Whipple, published by St. Martin’s Press, 1994, states on page 41, paragraph 3, that ” C. Merriam Hart, a Naturalist, reported that a squirrel hearing a musical instrument or recording … Continue reading
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The Treasure In The Trailer /Written by Janice Tindle
In a monetary sense, she wasn’t a wealthy woman. She lived in a mobile home in a mobile home park. Not one a fancy one, just an ordinary one, with vintage and new mobile homes living side by side. My … Continue reading
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The Caring One /Written by Janice Tindle
The light from the blue moon shone across the porcelain giving the bathroom an eery feel. He stared at his reflection in the mirror. There was an exhausted old man staring back at him. He was just fifty-three years old. … Continue reading
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Light To My Roadway /Written by Janice Tindle
I don’t know if you have ever had to try to get something from city government, but it can be a real headache. A simple request often has to go through a lot of red tape, meetings, and mounds of … Continue reading
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The College Next Door by Janice Tindle
There were no hallowed halls, no marble floors or columns. No grand winding staircase nor high domed ceiling. No pendant chandelier nor moulded wood panels. But there were beautiful plaster walls and ceilings with plaster moulding. Inside those walls were … Continue reading
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Peace, Liberty and…. Morgan /Written by Janice Tindle
In all our thirty years of marriage, we never had a complete bedroom suite. It was almost complete, but the bedroom was a bit of ‘this and that’ from the family, pieces I liked very much, but I was ready … Continue reading
VALERIE by Janice Tindle
(See my follow up at the end of this story) The ice and rain spit hard against my window pane like a child spitting watermelon seeds onto a dinner plate. I read the news and it hit me just as … Continue reading
Be Strong ! Have Courage ! /Written by Janice Tindle
Be strong, O heart, do not drop down, Have courage, among the failings of your soul, For yes, dear heart you can with God’s love surround, The very venture you are trying to control. With boldness, grab onto courage, let … Continue reading
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Grandma’s Lullaby /Written by Janice Tindle
It was a typical fall morning in Pennsylvania. The kind you anticipate. Crisp, clean air, all crinkling and spiced from rotting apples and dry leaves. Weather like this called for the planting of bulbs. Heirloom tulip bulbs, to be exact, … Continue reading
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