Dear Memory Preservers, I had a very good and long laugh at myself this morning. The kind of laugh that nearly turned into hysterics. As you know (although new readers may not), my father Beau became a neurologist after watching his father’s demise from Alzheimer’s disease. Beau then kept his father’s brain in a jar…
Category: Beau Bercaw
The Question is the Answer
Dear Readers, After my father died, I wrote to the Science editor at the New York Times to inquire about a follow-up story to the one I did last year. Click here to re-read that piece. I received a response last night: I would be interested, I think, in something about how his death affects…
The Story is Spreading
Dear Readers, Your numbers are growing. Brain in a Jar is very close to having 10,000 hits–with followers from Canada to Cambodia; India to Singapore; and, the United States to the United Kingdom. But yesterday one single person, sitting on a couch right next to me, revealed just how much of an impact my father’s…