Everyone’s a Winner in the Blogosphere

Dear Golden Readers, I am pleased to report that a Singapore-based follower of Brain in a Jar has awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She has a blog, too, called Frangipani Singaporenicum about her trials and triumphs while taking care of her mother who has early dementia. I like her blog because it connects me…

Stories, not Statistics

Dear Readers, Reluctantly, I retrieved the Sunday New York Times from the front porch this morning. Since Beau died I haven’t much felt like watching television, reading books or the newspapers. I mostly just like to sit  in silence and look out my front window—a bit like an Alzheimer’s disease patient myself. I let my…

How the Fairy Tale Ends

I am high up in the mountains of Vermont. I have come here to rest my mind and body after Beau’s death. I have come here to be in limbo. It’s raining outside my cabin now. Oh how I love the sound of water. Funny that I chose to retreat into hills instead of seas….