It seems that the traditional crafts—knitting, crotchet, sewing, scrapbooking, cross-stitch—have undergone a revival in the US since the start of the Corona virus pandemic. In Utah, the craft stores were designated “essential businesses” and remained open even during the lockdown. I had been a stranger to craft stores since giving up knitting about six years […]
Featured image: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart),” 1983. Dementia makes you forget, but you don’t get to choose what you forget about your own part in racism. What you learned first, when you were a small child, usually lasts the longest. WHAT I WANT TO FORGET Watching out of the living room […]
Today, I picked up a cup in the living room to take to the dishwasher. In our kitchen, five steps away, I could not find the dishwasher. Or, rather, the concept of “dishwasher” did not come together in my head, even though I kept repeating “dishwasher, dishwasher” in my mind to remember what to do. […]
I met Nancy Solari some time ago when she pre-recorded an interview about my dementia for her radio show. This week the show is being broadcast as If You Are Uncertain of the Future, by Turning to Others for Support You Will Be Able to Live Full Out. Nancy Solari has first-hand experience of living […]
Featured image: Janet Walker reviews Geraldine Solin’s Authorpreneur in Pajamas Now that Cruella-de-Virus has brought us to a point where people work from home and we who are mature in years have to be particularly asocial because of the underlying condition of oldness, the issue of what to wear every day has been pleasantly solved […]
In villages God does not live in corners as skeptics think. He’s everywhere. He blesses the roof, he blesses the dishes, he holds his half of the double doors. He’s plentiful. In the iron pot there. Cooking the lentils on Saturday. He sleepily jigs and bops in the fire, he winks at me, his witness. […]