In my pre-dementia life, I used to travel to broaden my mind and expand my world. Nowadays my favorite place to go to is the Las Vegas Strip that, despite its representations of Venice’s Grand Canal and St Mark’s square, the village of Bellagio on the shore of Lake Como, and Caesar’s Rome; Egypt’s Great […]
Latin dancing is not usually considered a solo act. However, should you step through our red front door and come upon my husband at the kitchen sink, strutting his stuff to a bachata song while doing the dishes, it would appear as though no one or nothing else were required to increase his satisfaction: the […]
Dementia support websites often urge relatives of people with dementia to compile photo albums of the person’s past as memory triggers or conversation pieces. Photo: Photo Albums for Dementia Patients In our house, I used to be the person in charge of the photo albums —back in the day when photos still had a final form […]
So what if life does NOT give you lemons? According to my grandson Kanye (10), get a business loan from your parents, buy 11 packets of lemonade flavored mix, and open a lemonade stand! Saturday July 1st 11 am-1 pm on the corner of 600 South and Emerson Street (just south of Liberty Park), Salt […]
I got a lovely e-mail from Michelle Aielli, Associate Publisher | Executive Director of Publicity at Hachette Books | Black Dog & Leventhal: “I’m so pleased to share that the LitHub excerpt is live right now! Here it is in all its glory – I think it came out very well: http://lithub.com/field-notes-from-my-dementia/ It is also promoted right […]
This page is a copy of the article in ShelfAwareness. To read it on their website, go to ShelfAwareness and scroll down to “The Writer’s Life.” Or else, read it below. (Main image credit) The Writer’s Life Gerda Saunders: Field Notes on Dementia photo: Peter Saunders Gerda Saunders is former associate director of the Gender […]