Jun 22she still wants to skydiveIn this photo, my mom is wearing the same shirt she has currently been wearing for three days. It doesn’t even come close to fitting her well anymore because Alzheimer’s makes you eat all the time. But no matter, she still likes that shirt and so she will wear it…Dementia2 min read
Jun 12ready, steady, goWhen I get it in my mind that something needs to be done, I don’t stop. I do it. I’m learning to sloooow down, but I don’t stop. I mean, I might stop remembering where my phone is 18 times a day, and I might stop halfway through making dinner…4 min read
May 29As I heard about the timeline of events in Uvalde, I started searching the Internet and ended up…As I heard about the timeline of events in Uvalde, I started searching the Internet and ended up reading an article that said during all that time that those children waited for help, a girl covered herself in a classmate’s blood and played dead to survive. I was reading this…3 min read
May 2247I suppose this is how I am, knowing something else may be better, but doing it my way anyway. Maybe because my way is faster. I like fast. I take short-cuts. But these are shaming statements and I’m tired of those. I am who I am, all of me, and…Spirituality3 min read
May 9as I type thisI’m working on my first full week of Covid. As I type this, I’m propped up in our bed, two small dogs curled up near me. It has started to rain and thunder. George, the shi tzu, keeps growling at the thunder. It’s a close competition. Just after Elsie got…Covid 193 min read
Apr 29adding alzheimer’s to injuryadding alzheimer’s to injury This week mom had a tooth extracted. Because of Alzheimer’s, she kept forgetting what had happened and wondering what was going on in her mouth. I had things with the kids later in the day and her helper friend was with her, trying to make dinner…Alzheimers3 min read
Apr 18“my whole life hurts”The joy can hurt, too. Yesterday, the big burly dude and the kids and I cooked an Easter meal for Nanny and Bapa and traipsed across our driveways in the windy snow, carrying dishes of food to their place next door. (Yes, the windy snow. On Easter. Enough said.) It…3 min read
Apr 12you were not made for this but you were made for thisBREAKING: Several people were shot at a Brooklyn train station during the rush hour commute on Tuesday. This is the headline I saw when I got home from dropping my kids off at school. Imagine the chaos and trauma at that train station, like you’ve hopefully been imagining what it’s…3 min read
Apr 7midlife (step step)midlife (step step) I don’t feel my age. I’m just a kid walking around imagining things that could be dreams, creating a list of ideas and then floating around deep in thought, while still having acne and too much to do. But then there’s the truth that I do actually…5 min read
Mar 31going homeI’ve been coming in around 4:45 or 5:00pm to help my mom with dinner. It has become too unsafe for her to try to do kitchen things on her own. …Alzheimers3 min read
