Alzheimer's
August 12, 2009
- One of the themes of my book, Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy, is that people who are in the position of speaking for God are in a position of great power. They get to say what reality is not only in this life, but in the next as well. The code we use to make decisions about what is right and wrong, determines to a large degree, how we perceive the world and the others who inhabit ...
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May 20, 2009
- Salon..com http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/19/kramer_dirt/index.html recently ran an article and an interview with the editor of a new book of essays I am included in, called DIRT: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House. In the article the writer says that "The most interesting essays in the collection are the ones that show how ...
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December 3, 2008
- I had this admittedly crazy idea to fly up north and fly with my mother back down to my small Virginia town so that she could spend a couple of days with me, see my teenaged daughter whom she hasn’t seen since this summer when we went up to celebrate her 80th birthday, see my 21-year-old son whom she hasn’t seen in a few years, and do a small pre- Hanukkah latke thing. I made all the ...
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November 24, 2008
- http://www.woodstockwire.com/redirect.phtml?uid=321224&sid=212513&euid=ad00b9d83446d9d37be3e128b3b17993&pub_date=2008-11-24
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October 13, 2008
- I did see LadyP this past Saturday at the senior center; it was obvious she was not doing well. She was much more agitated than usual, repeatedly asking when her husband was going to come, did I think her husband was going to come, what if her husband forgot, etc., even asking if I would give her a ride home if he didn't come get her. A couple of times it seemed that she thought we were ...
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September 25, 2008
- KidThree got a call this afternoon that a long-time friend, who moved to LA two years ago, was shot earlier today. She made some phone calls to get more information and found that the actual victim was the younger sister of that friend. That girl is not only the friend's younger sister, but her paternal grandfather was for a time the boyfriend of KidThree's paternal grandmother, so KidThree ...
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September 21, 2008
- Today I started going through the boxes that KidTwo left when she moved. Some of the books she just doesn't need to keep, so I sent her an email asking permission to purge the extraneous ones; fingers crossed, she will say yes. That will be a big help. She left more boxes than I thought she did--there were twenty. I figure I can find room for about half the books in my room, reducing her number ...
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September 21, 2008
- This morning I spent several hours with LadyP. We did jigsaw puzzles and looked through a catalog. Today she was not interested in imaginary shopping but did enjoy the puzzles. One of them was just pairs of mother and baby animals: the object was to pair the piece with the mother to the piece with the baby. LadyP was able to match a couple of them unaided. When I had all the pieces out on the ...
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August 24, 2008
- Maxine Hong Kingston’s 2003 book The Fifth Book of Peace is full of wondrous things—a partial re-creation of the book she famously lost, in its entirety, in the Oakland hills fire of 1991; her experiences of the devastating fire itself, in which she lost everything; and more. Here’s just one little passing thing in the book that I especially liked: Two of the characters decide to name ...
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August 18, 2008
- 1. Yesterday, when no one was watching, Mom ate part of a letter my sister wrote to her. Alzheimer’s is sad—but also funny. So: ha ha. Mom was cranky and had hollowed-out eyes—she hadn’t slept at all the previous night. She asked me for a drink and when I brought her a glass of juice, she lay in bed and opened her mouth wide, like a little bird in a nest. 2. # of times Dad called me ...
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