When What Dementia Takes Away Is a Good Thing One of the gifts of....
Adventures in Dementia*land: Part IV
On Subsequently, and not Unrelatedly, My Recovering My Mother When I see my....
Adventures in Dementia*land Part III
Click Here for Part I. Click Here for Part II. On My Mother Losing Her Mind and My Not Losing My Brother When your mother lives three thousand miles from you and your relationship is not a particularly close one, it makes sense that when she....
Adventures in Dementia*land: Part II
Introduction The Short Version: We have been successful in moving my mother....
Adventures in Dementia*land: Part I
Preface The following is a series of posts on the terrain I have encountered....
Gather Together
Do not be alone right now. Gather together. Gathering together grows courage: in ourselves and in others who see the numbers swelling. It is a small thing, but it is a thing. Right now, it is an important thing. Great sources of wisdom remind us:....
An Invisible Thread: A Farewell Sermon
Let us start with a poem We all have a thread that runs through our lives.....
Fear of Fueling Islamophobia: A Few Days Out From the Orlando
My grief -- at the Orlando massacre and the barely imaginable loss of life,....
Weeping & Walking & Welcoming My Inner Turtle
[caption id="attachment_3076" align="aligncenter" width="411"] New England Peace Pagoda[/caption] At dusk, an unscheduled detour and stop at the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, a place of calm for a very long time in my life. It is up a steep trail in a....
A Prayer for Those Lost in the Orlando Massacre
June 14, 2016 Shriver Job Corps Devens, Massachusetts [caption....