My Life With Dementia
I have early-onset dementia — diagnosed at 61. Thanks to those who love me, I’ve lived joyously for almost a decade with the d-word. I call my dementia “Doña Quixote.” In my blog, book, and videos, I tell tales about her: the good, the mad, and the fugly.
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Guest post by my sister-in-law Ria Saunders, 78 today: “Angels in Israel”
Featured art: Angel, stitched and burned on the synthetic fabric Tyvek by Gordana Brelih. Out of my 7 sisters-in-law (including exes and Esta who has died), Ria Saunders was my first—she and I married the Saunders brothers: she the oldest, Cliff, and I the younger, Peter. Our beloved Cliff died in June last year, 2019, […]
Corona virus contemplations, including explication of what the coiff is going on in and around Doña Quixote’s skull
Featured image: From Entities of the Threshold, Tamae Frame, figurative ceramic sculptor. I started this post about two- to three weeks before the true danger of the corona virus became evident to (many, but not all) of us Americans. I was writing—again—about the shrinking of my world because of my dementia; grieving it again, as […]
Cheryl Saunders, guest post about coronavirus: “We cannot control the world, but we can control where we put our focus”
Featured image: Australian Aboriginal artist Helen Milroy’s The Dance of Life (2006) reflects a multi-dimensional model of health and wellbeing from an Aboriginal perspective. All other art in this post is by Milroy. My beloved daughter-in-law Cheryl Saunders wrote the letter below to our family and friends in this time of coronavirus caution and, alas, panic. […]