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My Life With Dementia

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RadioWest Interview
December 18 2020

Isolation & Connection: a RadioWest film about how my family and I are coping (or not) with my dementia during the COVID isolation

Featured image: Screenshot from the RadioWest film Isolation and Connection. Videographer: Kelsie Moore. As many of you know, RadioWest has over the years made a series of short films on how my family and I are living with my dementia. (You can see them by selecting “Videos” from the menu at the top.) The most recent one, released […]

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Chagall Evening at the window (1)
December 4 2020

While searching out remedies for her Covid-19 blues, Doña Quixote gets the hang of hope 

Featured art: Detail from Evening at the Window, Marc Chagall (1950). This past week I donned my Covid-19 mask and, with Peter as my ever-gracious chauffeur, set out for the Orthopedic Hospital at the University of Utah for treatment of the painful thumb joint on my right hand. At the hand clinic—contrary to my previous […]

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Ana Teresa Barboza
August 30 2020

While hazarding the hospital for a non-Covid emergency, Doña Quixote revisits her end-of-life decisions

Featured image: Ana Teresa Barboza: embroidery featuring bodily functions. There is no time like having emergency surgery during our worldwide reckoning with Covid-19 to revisit one’s notions of what the end of a life might look like. On the morning of Saturday August 8, I first became aware of intense, lingering stomach pains. By noon, […]

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iceland-designer-facemask
August 3 2020

Knit away Covid eternity? Peter instead revamps Gerda’s dementia website, despite Doña Quixote’s backseat commentary

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 […]

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basquiats-defacement_xx
June 18 2020

“Black Lives Matter,” shout I, who grew up white in South Africa, a perpetrator, beneficiary, and eyewitness of Apartheid

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 […]

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Gerda with glue gun
May 13 2020

Taking up arms against the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Doña Quixote breaks out her glue gun

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. […]

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