It's The Little Things
as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine RaisingDad by Jim and Henry Duchene It’s The Little Things “you’re never too old to learn” It's not the big things that drive you nuts... it's the little things. When I first asked my elderly father to move in with us, I knew there would be a period of adjustment. What I didn't know was just how long that period of adjustment would be. Here it is, years later, and I'm still adjusting. My father? He's doing just fine. My father had been the head of his household well into his 80's. Myself, I've been in charge of my own life since I turned 18, when I put what I learned in my high school geography class to use and went to college out of state. As a kid, I learned early on that no one was allowed to touch my father's morning newspaper until he was finished reading it, and, believe me, he took a looong ti...