01/27/2026
For this quarter’s Livin’ the Dream, we chose Darylene 💙
For years, Darylene admired the tattoos she saw on others, but more recently she became fascinated by the many tattoos she noticed while living at The Terraces. As times have changed and tattoos have become more popular and accepted, many staff members now have them. Darylene often mentioned how getting a tattoo would be a dream come true—but she was nervous about the pain and what others might think.
After about four years, Darylene came up to me and said she was ready, if the offer to make her dream come true was still available. I told her, of course it was—and that I would be so happy to make it happen.
With the blessing of her son, we took Darylene to our local tattoo shop, where McKenna sketched a few kitty face designs just for her. Darylene absolutely loves cats and currently feeds a couple of strays outside our community. She chose a black cat face to remind her of them 🐾
While we waited for the tattoo artist to set up, Darylene shared a story about her mom. She told me her mom always dreamed of riding a motorcycle, and when she turned 100, a group of bikers picked her up and took her for a ride on the back of a Harley Davidson to a biker club and then back home. “My mom was a bada**,” she said.
After Darylene finished her tattoo, she looked at me with a tear in her eye and said, “I’m a bada**, just like my mom.”
