That is, if one can consider two women over twenty years younger than me as peers! The Wombat I have had some ups and downs with my energy level the last few weeks—a kind of mental exhaustion unrelated to actually having done any thinking or writing. When lovely Shauna Robertson of chicover50 invited me along […]
Today, Sunday Oct 8, marks 1 week since the shooter from Mesquite killed 58 and wounded 489 people in Las Vegas. A week before that dreadful day, Peter and I had booked our free hotel rooms on the strip. On Monday, after our kids and friends individually called or e-mailed to ask if we were […]
Some of my friends tell me I’m famous for having written Memory’s Last Breath. Well, I like to think that I am. But not quite in the way those friends might imagine. While I am ecstatically grateful for the great reception that my book has received upon publication, in the enormous world of US publishing a […]
Main image credit: Tomás Mondragón’s Alegoría de la Muerte (Allegory of Death), Mexico,1856. There is no question that my world is shrinking. Just this afternoon Peter and I were talking about how we go out less often. That is because Peter loves being home almost all the time, and the drive to go on an […]
Like many millions of our fellow-Americans, Peter and I ventured outside a few minutes before 11 am Utah time armed with our pinhole cameras and a colander, the latter having been recommended on the radio as a good instrument for focusing and multiplying the eclipsing sun’s image. The colander worked remarkably well—definitely better than our […]
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 […]
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 […]