Adventures in Dementia*land: Part VIII

Keeping Guilt Company During this visit much has happened. And nothing has....


Adventures in Dementia*land: Part VII

The Smell of Prell: Nostalgia Comes Knocking Tonight was intended to be the....


Adventures in Dementia*land: Part VI

On Hideous Toe Nails and Moments of Intimacy   3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel....


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....


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.....