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…
Tag: Alzheimer’s Disease
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…