Bodyless Horseman of the Apocalypse

Dear Dreamy Readers, Growing up with a neurologist can really mess with your head. Especially if he’s got a brain in a jar at work, and spinal columns hanging from IV stands at home. Unphased by it all, I used to hang out in his den and read everything from the Merck Manual to Pediatric…

Oops, I Did It Again

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…

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…