Wine, Women & Dementia

Seeking healing and comfort in community, a dementia family caregiver roadtrips the U.S. to swap caregiver stories with others who share this journey. The uplifting documentary Wine, Women, & Dementia is a universal story of the end of life journey through the unique perspective of dementia family caregivers. 

This inspiring documentary follows the journey of former dementia family caregiver and filmmaker, Kitty Norton, as she embarks on a cross-country RV adventure around the U.S. Her mission: to meet the dementia family caregiver friends who, despite physical distance, supported and inspired each other through virtual connections.

Meeting in person for the first time, the caregivers share intimate, humorous, and heartfelt stories of their care experiences. Through illuminating interviews over bottles of wine, viewers gain vivid insights into the realities of dementia - from diagnosis to death and heartbreak to humor. It's a physical and emotional trip as the caregivers process and compare their experiences, illustrating that however isolated they are, they are not alone. And that community, regardless how far away, can have miraculous effects to benefit a tough, tough journey.

Director Kitty Norton also authored the popular family caregiver blog, Stumped Town Dementia.

Perfect for Awareness Holidays: National Caregivers Day (February 20), Caregiver Appreciation Day (March 3), Mother's Day, Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month (June), World Alzheimer's Month (September), and National Family Caregiver Month (November).

A one hour version was featured on PBS. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aE11n6XjZc

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Current Mood

I don't know about all of you but I've been feeling quite shall we say amorous. 

So this slogan definitely conveys my Current Mood.

It's time to grab hold and bring it.

Why? Because innocence is an overrated virtue.

 Hugs in Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug 

Critic's Choice Awards

Chelsea Handler

Want to know what I'll be watching tonight? Take a guess you only get one. If you think I will be watching the Critic's Choice Awards, you guessed correctly.

Do I care who wins? Not really. I am mainly tuning in for the spectacle of it all and to watch Chelsea Handler host. "Yes" I like Chelsea Handler and apparently I am not alone this is her second year hosting the event.

Here is a list of nominees below, enjoy!

https://www.eonline.com/news/1425585/critics-choice-awards-2026-nominations-see-the-complete-list

JRR Tolkien Day

Today we celebrate JRR Tolkien Day! "Yes" It's the author of The Lord Of The Rings trilogies Birthday!

And you’re encouraged to toast him in celebration. You may remember from the story that Frodo toasts his Uncle Bilbo on Bilbo’s birthday every year. Now, over sixty years after the trilogy’s original publication, The Tolkien Society asks fans to honor Tolkien’s birth, which itself was January 3, 1892. Come up with a few words of adulation on your own, or use the official Society phrase: “The Professor!” If you want to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien Day with a few extra meals in addition to the toast, in true hobbit fashion, Frodo would certainly approve!

So today ask yourself what would Frodo do???

JRR Tolkien Day on the WWW -

https://nationaltoday.com/jrr-tolkien-day/

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke
Mary Poppins

It's the first Friday of 2026 and there is one word that best describes it, I bet you can guess what that word is...

It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I

You tell em' Mary Poppins!

Mary Poppins on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/

Michael's Musings

"Can't stop, comin' in hot"
Michael Shinafelt

"So raise your glass if you are wrong

In all the right ways
All my underdogs
We will never be never be, anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass
Just come on and come on and raise your glass" - Pink, Raise Your Glass

It's Thursday January 1st 2026, and here we're still standing!

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name correctly. That's all.

You ain't nobody Lord Voldemort! I ain't scared of you boo!

We all know you've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but have you heard of leaving trans people the f#ck alone?! Asking for a friend.

2025 was a tough year but at least I didn't buy a Labubu, so there!

Rewatching The Bold Type on Tubi. I forgot how great that show is, it really speaks to me

Went and saw Marty Supreme yesterday. What an odd, but completely compelling film.

Expectation is the root of heartache. The more you know. 

Woman Crush of the Week - There's something about Odessa A'zion. Between being on the HBO series I Love LA and being in Marty Supreme I just can't get enough!

Putting a baby in a freezer would kill it, but freezing embryos preserves them. This is why an embryo isn't a baby. Hope this helps.

Saw Ron Howard's Eden on Netflix, it's worth a watch. Not to mention a nice, shall we say head to toe view of Jude Law.

I celebrated NYE on my couch, you?

Never rule out a goal because you think it's unattainable. Be audacious.

I'm celebrating the first day of 2026 with a bang! Hint: read between the lines...

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Here Comes 2026!

Michael Shinafelt

2025 was a rough year and were still standing. 2026 will more than likely prove equally as challenging.

Remember the chutzpah that got you through last year? Well you'll need more of that this year to be certain.

Be Fearless Minions!

Happy New Year!

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