Featured image: Alice, illustration by Gianlucci Gambino, aka, Te Nia In the immediate aftermath of my dementia diagnosis twelve years ago (2011), it made sense to separate my then-still-comparatively-rational self from the disease and look at it from the outside. That is when (almost subconsciously) I created Doña Quixote, my demented alter ego, from whom […]
Dear friends, The film about how my family and I live joyfully with my dementia is now available for streaming. For those of you who were unable to watch the premiere yesterday, follow the link below. Thanks so much for your years of supporting me and my family with your love. Below, click the image […]
Featured photo: Aliya Saunders takes a selfie of the whole family celebrating Peter’s birthday. Many thanks to Peter for all your help in sizing and editing the photos, and putting them in a place where I could find them. (Photo, Aliya.)O Don’t mess with these women! As part of Peter’s 74th birthday celebration, PBS […]
Featured image: Illustration from Brian Froud and Alan Lee’s Faeries, depicting Mr. Despair and [Ms] Despondency. When loved ones with dementia become tactless, rude, or offensive, people who have known them in better days will often observe that “X is no longer X.” Over the past months, “no-longer-Gerda” behavior has been creeping into my daily life […]
My daughter Marissa is completing an MBA degree, of which her capstone project is the last rock to roll up the mountain! She and her group are planning to create an organization to support dementia caregivers. As a first step, they want to gather a sense of the demand for a dementia caregiver support service. To […]
One of the claims that speakers at the October 2021 Alzheimer’s World Summit was that dementia could be reversed or cured. Lifelong die-hard science groupie that I am, I was immediately suspicious. While thinking about, promoting, and preparing for the conference, I tried to learn as much as I could about slowing/preventing/reversing/curing dementia in the contexts of […]