On Hideous Toe Nails and Moments of Intimacy 3 Jesus, knowing....
Adventures in Dementia*land: Part V
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 doctor for my annual check-up and the medical technician asks me what medications I am currently taking, there is often praise when I say that I take none. So far, I am lucky....
Adventures in Dementia*land Part III
Click Here for Part I. Click Here for Part II. On My Mother Losing Her....
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 with my mother’s dementia. Of all the pieces, the introduction (Part II) was most recently written (aside from this preface). Afterward come more posts, mostly in the order....
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, and its intentional targeting of the gay community -- is not separate from my fear. I fear that in the aftermath of this intentional act of violence, especially when....
Weeping & Walking & Welcoming My Inner Turtle
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