Pennie A. Nichols

Going Home

by Pennie Nichols | May 27, 2022 | Alzheimer's Bull, Family and Friends

For these eight days away from home at home, mom has been whole. For me, anyway. I close my eyes and I see her through my front window. She’s weeding the walkway to my porch.

Life Swirls

by Pennie Nichols | May 18, 2022 | Accidental Blogs, Family and Friends

Some mornings I stand on the edge of a steep knowing, a transformational space of understanding, embracing the brilliance that opens infinitely before me. Others, the land is flat beneath my feet, the same as it always was, closed off from the mystery beyond by a patch of trees, shadows, confusion. I’m fine and I’m falling apart. These are both true.

Wholly Broken

by Pennie Nichols | May 11, 2022 | Alzheimer's Bull

We’re all broken. But together, we’re a little more whole.

Sliding towards the edge

by Pennie Nichols | May 5, 2022 | Accidental Blogs

Celebrations and Mixed Feelings

by Pennie Nichols | Apr 28, 2022 | Alzheimer's Bull

Mixed feelings are not elegant, graceful, certainly not the kind of trinket you take out to show off. They’re the scribble-scratch of the heart. We resist them: surely we’re more mature than that! We want to look away, but denying the mixed of these feelings is untrue. Unfair to the heart.