The link to my interview with Melanie Rice of Cape Talk Radio
Here it is, dear friends: Melanie Rice interviews Gerda on Cape Talk Radio. Thanks so much to those of you who were able to listen “live” and who sent me such lovely comments.
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For my South African peeps: tomorrow, July 13th, Melanie Rice of Cape Talk Radio interviews me LIVE between 1 pm and 3 pm SA time
I’m so excited about this news: tomorrow morning I will be getting up at 5 am Utah time to get ready to talk to Melanie Rice about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH at 6 am Utah time. It will be so wonderful to speak to someone to whom I do not have to explain the context for […]
Doña Quixote wants to know: who am I making these memories for?
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 […]
Gerda on BYU Radio: an interview with the marvelous Julie Rose of the show Top of Mind
You can listen to the podcast here. Last week Peter and I drove to Provo for my interview with Julie Rose, who runs the show Top of Mind on BYU Radio. Before reporting to the studio, we hung around outside the building watching the passing show. One thing I have to say about the students […]
alzheimers.net discusses MEMORY’S LAST BREATH and gives away 10 FREE COPIES!
This quote from the article on alzheimers.net makes me happy! If there is anything I had hoped would come from MEMORY’S LAST BREATH, it was that it would show a dementia diagnosis is not an immediate death sentence. There is much life to live after the d-word! “Memory’s Last Breath: Field Notes on Dementia” is […]
Gerda reads from Memory’s Last Breath this coming Thursday, June 29th at 6:30 pm, ART ACCESS, 230 SOUTH 500 WEST, #110, Salt Lake City
Attendance is FREE and open to the public. ASL interpreter provided. IT WOULD BE LOVELY TO SEE YOU THERE! DATE: Thursday, June 29th, TIME: 6:30pm LOCATION: ART ACCESS, 230 SOUTH 500 WEST, #110, Salt Lake City Questions or accommodation re- quests? Please call 801.328.9868 or contact heidi@accessart.org As part of our Creative Aging Project, Art […]