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…
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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…
A Very Bad Time
Dear Readers, What am I going to do about this time? Beau died four weeks ago today, a Monday at 6:30 a.m. As if Monday mornings weren’t tough in general, I now wake up and feel sick. This morning, I forgot for a few minutes, yet I still felt awful. My body knew even when…
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