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…
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The Only Two Filipino Bercaws in the History of the World
My beatific father is being transferred to hospice care in Naples, Florida today. I have no words for the impending loss of the only other Filipino Bercaw in the history of the world, so I’ll tell you the story of how he turned me into a mermaid. My father’s eyes are fixated on the dozens…
Physician’s Daughter, Heal Thyself
Dear Gentle Readers, Six weeks have passed since I last blogged. In that time I have been to the Bahamas, been to see Beau, moved into a new house—-and, most significantly, found space in my head NOT to think about Alzheimer’s disease. For years, long before my father went to Juniper Memory Care, Alzheimer’s weighed…
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