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Telephone switchboard operators in WW, 1957 (2)

by Carol Fant on January 31, 2014 · Comments: 6

This picture of the old switchboard room looks like utter chaos:  lines crisscrossing everywhere, 1000s of possible connections, people frozen in time.  If we could […]

dr. pepper cowgirls

by Carol Fant on January 22, 2014 · Comments: 6

I’ve had an old Hank Williams’ song running through my head for days: “Well, why don’t you love me like you used to do?  How come […]

old-lady-with-naughty-ooooooh-look

by Carol Fant on January 15, 2014 · Comments: 4

I saw my doctor last week for a physical, and had to get a shot.  I haven’t had a shot since I was, I don’t […]

godzilla3

by Carol Fant on January 8, 2014 · Comments: 5

I recently watched a Teepa Snow video in which she discussed the first symptoms of dementia.  The comment she made that struck me was that you […]

giant panda

by Carol Fant on January 3, 2014 · Comments: 2

I so wanted to write one of those “shiny happy people holding hands” New Year’s messages.  One of those posts you’d save for the rest […]

auntclara7

by Carol Fant on December 19, 2013 · Comments: 6

I was talking to a friend yesterday when we both went into one of those “I can’t remember” moments.  Sadly, I don’t even remember what […]

beaver03

by Carol Fant on December 11, 2013 · Comments: 6

Listen up, people.  I have some things I need to say now, in case I get dementia later.  I won’t be able to tell you […]

Cowardly-Lion (1)

by Carol Fant on December 3, 2013 · Comments: 0

I can just look at this picture of the Cowardly Lion and chuckle.  And if I listen to his courage speech or his King of […]

ALexander_The_Greatmagician

by Carol Fant on November 27, 2013 · Comments: 2

I love a good carnival.  Roller coasters, crystal ball seers, that creepy guy running The Himalayan ride who won’t let you off the damn thing […]

CreedBlue

by Carol Fant on November 21, 2013 · Comments: 6

There’s a scene in the Clint Eastwood classic, “Pale Rider,” where one of the cowboys exclaims (after witnessing Eastwood’s “Preacher” character whoop up on the […]

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I’m Carol Fant, Chief Reality Officer of One Brave Cowgirl. I got that title after living with my mother’s Alzheimer’s for six years, and figuring out I had a choice: be sad and in despair 24/7, or learn to lighten up and see the gifts dementia could bring me. That’s my preferred reality, and I hope to share that with you.

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