January 2016

- Terry Brezsny Ballantyne

Time To Downsize?

January 30, 2016What can you expect as challenges in selling Mom or Dad’s home? Mom or Dad last sold at least a decade or more ago. Pre internet, pre HGTV, pre techology.   Homes did not have to look like a magazine ad. Mom and Dad put their house on the market in its everyday condition and hoped someone would like the neighborhood, their nice lawn and the way they wallpapered the kitchen.  They assume the buyer will make an offer and then they negotiate the price based...

- Terry Brezsny Ballantyne

Shouting Tenderly

January 9, 2016How to you shout " I love you!" and sound like you mean it? A reader wrote to me and told this story: "I am caring for my mom who has mini stroke related dementia. Her intellect and observations about life are still,  on occasion, profound and moving.  For a moment you feel you can reach out and make a true connection, and then the moment fades and she will be confused about what a calendar is for, or what month it is. When she...