Meet Irene Frances Olson, Author of Requiem for the Status Quo
By Irene Frances Olson My name is Irene Frances Olson and I survived being an Alzheimer’s family caregiver twice. My father, Don Patrick Desonier, to whom my novel Requiem for the Status
By Irene Frances Olson My name is Irene Frances Olson and I survived being an Alzheimer’s family caregiver twice. My father, Don Patrick Desonier, to whom my novel Requiem for the Status
Silent Storm: What We Remember, What We Forget, What We Discover A Novelist Meditates on Writing about Alzheimer’s By Marita Golden I didn’t choose. I was called. That’s how inspiration, art, and
By Bryan Wiggins No one I know has Alzheimer’s disease. My parents have entered their eighties with their sharp minds intact. Only one of my four grandparents suffered any kind of dementia,
By Pippa Kelly Before signing off the final proofs of my debut novel I read the manuscript for the first time in over a year and realised that it was not just
By Cynthia Toney Alzheimer’s is a cruel prison that held my dear mother-in-law in chains for approximately three years, taking her freedom and her mind until it finally took her body. I
By Kathleen H. Wheeler Why choose Alzheimer’s as the focus of my new family saga novel Brought To Our Senses? It’s a fair question. After all, Alzheimer’s is argued to be the
By Sharleen Scott Her name was Judy, and I married her son. She was a Depression-era child who grew up in the Pacific Northwest forests, traveling with her grandfather’s logging company. She
By Robin Perini Looking back, it all started one Christmas morning with a seemingly minor event. Unlike every Christmas in the past, that morning my mom couldn’t remember which presents belonged to
By Laurie LC. Lewis Like our family, my proposed WWII mystery, The Dragons of Alsace Farm, was also changed by our mother’s diagnosis of dementia. After my father’s passing, Mom threw herself
By Tracy Vanderneck Florida is the retiree mecca of the United States. As residents, we are used to conversations that begin with, “You live in Florida? My parents retired there…”. Yes, we
