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 […]
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 […]
Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s mother, Linda Williams, has a rare form of dementia called primary progressive aphasia. Williams-Paisley’s memoir, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again, takes the reader on a family’s journey as dementia caregivers and how it affects not just the person with the disease but the entire family. “Williams-Paisley was […]