Angels on Earth magazine

When my friend and colleague, Edward Grinnan, Guideposts Editor-in-Chief, told me he’d finished his latest book on his family’s experience with his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, I knew you’d want me to share an excerpt, which begins on page 12. There

‘‘Noah!” I yelled. Could my five-year-old son even hear me over the crashing waves and the noisy buzz of the Labor Day crowds on Oxnard Beach? “Noah!” I ran across the sand, my heart racing, weaving through a forest of beach umbrellas and sunbathers.

Birds and blooms weren’t the only things I had to be grateful for as I basked in the sunshine on my porch that early summer’s day. For months I’d been worried about my aging parents. Their home was in desperate need of repair. Mom and Dad weren’t in

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I looked out my hotel window at the pool below and saw her, a solitary mallard female, paddling around in the water. It was early, before the sun replaced the shade and the sunbathers gathered. The duck paddled as if she didn’t have a care in the wor