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Motivational Humorist, Professional Speaker Janie Jasin is Author of the Best-Selling Book The Littlest Christmas Tree which Has Sold A Million Copies! order book, book CD & other products read about Janie's book Heart in Hands "This little book should be on every coffee table in America." Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen Dealing with Aging Parents? "As Time Goes by at Pearl's Harbor" order video A video created by Janie Felker Jasin, a caring daughter & Certified Professional Speaker This is an excellent video to watch as a lead-in to family, professional or educational geriatric discussion. It is recommended for families, nurses, attorneys, bankers, health care professionals, nursing homes, retirement groups, Alzheimer's support, and funeral home directors. This seven minute highly provocative production is a tribute to caregivers as well as the resident or home-cared-for individual. It is packaged with a loving and honest discussion guide for families and caregivers, for baby boomers with aging parents. For use in Facillities, Hospice, Alzheimer Support Group, Sibling decision making, LPN, RN, PT, OT, HOME CARE, in-services. It creates an awareness of "The Individual" and the uniqueness of their lives. $20.00 NOTE FROM JANIE My Mom, Pearl passed away on December 9, 2001 at 95 years of age and was a victim or dementia and Parkinson's disease for 14 years. This is our story and is also the story of thousands of baby boomers and their loved ones. I have lived this story from 1984 when Daddy began his struggle with Alzheimers disease, dying in 1987, and Mom's life from age 80 to 95, with her confusion and challenges. As an only child my journey was financially and emotionally rough but also an awakening to hold out my hands and heart to others. SUMMARY OF VIDEO: Whether you are a caring family member concerned with aging parents or a professional working in Long Term Care, this video is dedicated to you. As the life of Pearl Flanigan Felker unfolds we are transported from past to present and back again. We share the joys and fears of all humanity. We are moved to action! Janie says, "I was not prepared for the death of my father from Alzheimer's, followed by my mother's declining self-reliance. There were few resources and little support from bankers, attorneys and other professionals who dealt with my parents' affairs. I would like you to learn from my own experience. My parents were wonderful, vital people and their lives were a treasure. Share my story and realize the value of being prepared.

Janie Jasin's Newsletter Summer/Fall 2002 click here for Janie's Winter/Spring 2002 newsletter click here for Janie's Spring/Summer 2001 newsletter If We Can Make It Here We Can Make It Anywhere It's Up To You And Me It is a true blessing to be a professional speaker and be "out there" in the world. One day I am with personnel folks and the next week with grocers or students. The highlights always come from the surprises and most often from those speeches I give because my heart was moved to do the event. Example H O S A or Health Occupations Student Of America Let me set the scene. It was their spring conference at The Radisson Plymouth. Five hundred high school kids with an interest in being a health care professional would be gathering to compete, test, learn, meet and look into the various fields available. That would be a Doctor, nurse, Veterinarian, Vet assistant, Care Provider, etc. Asked by Candy Rice R.N, Director, I was challenged and wanted to do this. Candy Rice R.N. of Chanhassen is a cracker jack of a woman, worked two and sometimes three jobs to keep her life going in health care and has a great love of teens. So I said yes! I arrived to see the kids going into their banquet. The girls were all glitzed up with stretchy evening gowns and the guys in uncomfortable-looking suits with ties. They were not on dates; they were just dressed up for their banquet. I went in feeling about 85 years old and looked around; set up my speaking props and listened. At one table I overheard a big guy telling chums at his table that there were some A-holes that did something. Yipes, such language, but I walked over and said, "I have occasionally been one, but you should tell me where these others are in case I need to know as the speaker." The kid turned red, we all laughed, he knew I was an ok, with-it woman, and then it was time for the speech. I did my best......put five of the kids up in front, had them close their eyes and pretend they were on a space shuttle and then let out in the year 2015. I imagined for them where they would be practicing, getting highly paid and questioned cleverly as if they were already a surgeon, a Vet, or an R.N. Everyone was laughing and getting into it. I left my friend from the table for last and invited him up on stage. He closed his eyes for the space ride. I set the scene and told him as an anesthetist he was renown and famous and would be helping an elderly woman go under for a complicated operation who was terribly upset. He opened his eyes and the patient was myself. I was carrying on and crying about my operation. He calmly said, "You'll be just fine. It will go very well. I'll be here to watch and help you." What fun! The speech was over......I was a hit ...... Then the disc jockey picked up on a speaking line I sang in the program. " If We Can Make It Here, We'll Make It Anywhere. It's Up To You & Me (New York) or H OSA." The disc jockey then played " NEW YORK NEW YORK" and I got ready to ...... Not one kid was out there dancing. The guy who had been my joy and challenge said, "Come On Let's Dance." He danced me around and all of the kids joined in. I left smiling and got into my car. I was 18 years old again. A Woman's Work Is Never Done! She ironed cotton sheets, planted strawberries, froze raspberries, knew how to pluck a chicken, sold fine jewelry, stayed married for 58 years and mothered me. What she didn't realize is that she would be working long after she left this earth. Mom died in December of 2001 as you might recall dear readers. Since her final resting place is in the family plot in Central Wisconsin next to my Dad and she died in the winter she hasn't made the trip from Victoria to Wisconsin as yet. She rests in her awesome green cloisonné china urn on my dresser. Yes, it may seem odd to have her on the dresser but the alternatives were strange as well. After her special Mass at St. Victoria in December it didn't seem right to put her urn in the closet, or the kitchen cupboard. So I placed her on the dresser with her photo at twenty-one in a beautiful oval frame with an Irish Music box and her rosary from Ireland. As I would go past the dresser to another part of the room I would look up and ask her how it was in paradise. On St. Paddy's day I heard faint rumblings of jigging and hoots of happiness and I knew there was great celebrating going on for that Irish beauty and all of the Flanigans with her. But she wasn't just sitting there being remembered......as my daughter struggled with an employment challenge, we placed the possible new Boss's name on a slip of paper under the urn. Janet said, "Come On Nana go to Jesus and ask him to help." Seems that He did as the new boss came through. Janet is at US Bank in Minneapolis. have a small slip under there now asking for more help for my son Jeff. So Mom works on. Perhaps when she is put into her plot in the summer grass she will sigh a relief and tell us all to do our own chicken plucking, job finding and strawberry planting. She earned a rest, and as I face this Month of May I think of her birthday May 9, 1906, Daddy's birthday May 13, 1907, and Mother's Day...... Neither of them will ever really be silent. I will ask, implore and continue to hear their words, actions, sayings and silliness. A song, a wave on the lake, a tulip, a sunny day, a cow grazing, chickens in a barnyard or a simple sales idea will trigger a memory so strong that I can hear the messages from heaven and the dresser. Happy Mother's Day Mom, Happy Birthday Dad! Happy Dad's Day, too. A Dad influences a daughter in an incredibly powerful way. Janie Jasin

Janie Jasin -- Mom, grandmother, author, speaker, neighbor, friend, entrepreneur. Janie has a joyous wisdom that moves hearts and minds. If we are present to others our presence becomes a gift. It is through communicating with those who are affirming you with that gift that you will become all you were meant to be. Janie Jasin Asking for help first and then receiving it is the magic formula. Janie Jasin "Giving," taught me that what went out of the front door returned though the back door multiplied one hundred fold. Janie Jasin My grandchildren and their innocence all show me life and possibilities. Janie Jasin