Photo Credit: Shauna Robertson. Doña Quixote is my name for my dementing self. During my ventures into the outside world this past week, she showed up rather frequently, as measured by my several lapses in preparedness related to my appearance and/or handbag paraphernalia: On Monday during a car trip with Peter, I left my […]
Thanks to the artistry of the VideoWest team–Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, and videographer Josh Weathers–the national online magazine Slate is going to publish the short film series of me and my family as we live with my dementia. Click here to go directly to the video. Or see it on the front page, and then […]
Today the editor of my forthcoming book, Paul Whitlatch of Hachette Books, sent me a link to a recent New York Times article on a woman who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s about 4 years ago. The author, N.R. Kleinfeld–a magnificent writer, by the way–says this about Geri’s Taylor’s life now, i.e., before the disease has done excessive […]
Peter and I do not celebrate Mother’s Day between the two of us. “You are not my mother,” he says. For those of you who may by now wonder how I have put up with such an insensitive scoundrel for 49 years, 45 of them in marriage, I disclose that we don’t celebrate Father’s Day […]
Book reviewer Terry Hong made me aware of a blog by Susan Schultz, Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, that posts poetry written by people with Alzheimers, as well as other creative pieces related to people with dementia. Here is a video–originally posted on the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project–about how call and response poetry awakens people from the deep well of […]
The image accompanying this blog is a painting by Lezley Saar from an exhibition section titled “Madness in the Gaze.” After the publication of my essay in The Georgia Review/Slate, Abigail T. Fox in mentions me as follows in Breitbart.com: “Saunders’s story is a personal tragedy and a societal calamity.A woman loses her mind at a relatively young age, […]