Well, it was nothing like an army barracks.
I don’t know why it’s taken me over two months to write this entry, but I think it has to do with my ambivalence with blogs in general, which (I hope) will be the topic of a future post.
Lucille’s last home was a place called The Village. She [...]
Today’s Science Times section (my favorite section of The New York Times) has an article titled Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain.
While older brains may seem less acute than whippersnapper brains, they apparently have a much better ability to absorb and process information better than the baby brains and can view words, ideas, [...]
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Lucille died of pneumonia last week. After my mom’s father died, she moved to Hemet, California, to be near her sister and her friend Virginia, but her sister died almost 15 years ago, and Virginia moved to Florida a few years after that.
Lucille was cremated, and her ashes were sent to somewhere in Orange County. “Why Orange County?” I asked my mom.
“I don’t know why Orange County,” my mom said. She repeated the last three words as I did.
“What does it matter?” I heard my dad say in the background.*
NYC Subway Tokens
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Originally I was going to call this blog If I Had Alzheimer’s.
Then I read a post on Daily Blog Tips called The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names that recommended choosing a domain name that is short and easy to remember and spell.
My only significant experience with Alzheimer’s Disease was my cousins’ grandmother, who developed it sometime in the early 80s.
When I saw her for the last time in 1989, she and I sat on matching bar stools while she discussed the mess of menstruation. It was this continuous loop about the blood and leaking maxipads and [...]
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