RepGuardian

I collect a few things like thimbles and stamps. But, my favorite things to collect are maps. I have all sorts of different kinds from city maps to road maps to country maps. The thing that I like most about collecting maps is that for every place you can think of, there is most likely at least one map for that area.

My mom is from southern Texas and my father is from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Every time I go there I end up finding new maps of the neighborhoods where they grew up. Now, my parents are in a nursing home so they don’t get to make it to Texas to much these days but they like to see those maps so they can tell me what used to be at some intersection.

It’s like showing them the maps of all over the USA gets their memories going and it refreshes their minds too. They seem more coherent after they look over a map.