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 […]
The Today Show piece was supposed to air tomorrow, but it came on unexpectedly this morning. Here it is: Former professor on talking about her dementia: ‘It has made my life richer’ Peter and I happened to have the TV on and watched it. We thought they did a great job in condensing 2 days’ […]
Remember mid-April when Peter and I went to Seattle and visited the amazing book stores Elliot Bay Book Company, Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, and Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island? Well, the primum mobile of our trip to Seattle was an invitation from the public TV program WellREAD to interview me about […]
Main Photo: Rick Rayburn takes care of his wife Marianne, who has dementia. As impossible as it seems to me that our generation, the baby boomers, are now the old people, I see it confirmed in myself and in my circle of friends and family, where hip- and other joint replacements, serious illnesses, dementia for […]