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, […]
Featured photo: The RadioWest team, Elaine Clark, Kelsie Moore, Doug Fabrizio, Benjamin Bombard Click here to see the so-far complete RadioWest films about my dementia. RadioWest and I go way back. In 2001, Doug Fabrizio interviewed me on his then brand-new “intelligent” show about my book of short stories that dealt with my family’s emigration […]
My dearest Peter, Last year for my birthday, you wrote me a letter that includes this quote from The Velveteen Rabbit: “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who […]
Main image: Gillian Bennett and her cat Cosmo (photo courtesy of Jonathan Bennett). A totally unexpected pleasure from my blog is people writing to me out of the blue. One such e-mail did give me pleasure, but of a kind I have to qualify: the pleasure lay in the fact that I immediately recognized Jonathan […]
Photo credit: All photos in this post are by Scott Winterton, Deseret News. In earlier posts and in VideoWest’s 2nd video of me and my family and how we are dealing with my growing dementia, I have lamented the fact that someone in the late stages of dementia cannot ever qualify to receive an assisted […]
This video consists of an excerpt from the panel discussion about Michael Rossato-Bennett’s documentary Alive Inside arranged by the Utah Commission on Aging and hosted by Salt Lake Acting Company in 2015. Gerda Saunders, who has dementia, was one of the panelists. She speaks about her feelings regarding Alive Inside , which tells of Dan Cohen’s work of bringing music to […]