Dispatches from the thick of it: middle age, dementia care, and balancing life as a writer with everything else.
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Unraveling
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Mike has been gone for just over three weeks. Nearly one full month. It feels strange to be able to say this so definitively when the main symptom of my grief appears to be an almost complete inability to...
Memento Mori
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If you’ve been reading this Substack for any length of time, then the news of Mike’s death will not come as a surprise. We were told on a Friday that he might have one more week. He died early Tuesday mo...
Keeping Vigil
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As I mentioned in my last post, Mike is making his way very slowly toward the end of his life. He’s lost the ability to swallow, so he hasn’t been eating or drinking for the past five days. But the hospi...
In Transition
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Mike was admitted to hospice on April 1st. In order for that to happen in the United States, a doctor has to certify that someone likely has six months or less to live if their illness takes its n...
Phantom Vibrations
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Some years ago, my son bought me a fancy Fitbit for Christmas. It was meant to replace the very basic one I’d been wearing for years, the type that basically counted steps and didn’t do much else. The...
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Writer, professor, novelist (Little Lost River), dementia caregiver, memoirist in the making. Forever just trying to get everything done.
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