LaBena Fleming’s Touching Memoir, I Love You Always
By LaBena Fleming The Story Behind the Story of I Love You Always I don’t know that I can say I “chose” to write a memoir. Perhaps it would be more appropriate
By LaBena Fleming The Story Behind the Story of I Love You Always I don’t know that I can say I “chose” to write a memoir. Perhaps it would be more appropriate
By Layne Deemer When my father was alive and caring for my mother, he used to say, “You don’t know what it’s like in this house.” I hated when he said that,
By Pat MacEnulty Dementia was the official cause of death for my mother, but it had chipped away at her life for the previous six years. She was 86 years old when
by Kathy Flora When I sat down at the computer, I intended to write an entirely different book. But the story of caring for my mom as she encountered physical and then
Dancing With Dementia: Recognizing and Coping with the Early Stages of Dementia By Jemi Fraser We didn’t have a clue. As the children of immigrants, we knew next to nothing about dementia.
By Dawn Gardner The primary reason I wrote The Jade Butterfly was to honor my grandmother, Maude. She died in the mid-1950s of breast cancer. My own mother was five when Maude
Run for the Sun — Our Journey Through Alzheimer’s By Betsey Helfrich Both of our parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease before the age of 70. I was 29 years old when my
By James Russell My blog, Nevertheless Dementia, We Persist, began in January 2020 to record my daughter’s life with Alzheimer’s disease in an Aegis Living facility in Seattle. She and I are
By Joan Cohen I was introduced to the pain of Alzheimer’s disease by watching my mother and grandmother succumb to it. Their ordeal became mine. Before that, I believed the common misconceptions,
Working Daughter On July 1, 2014, both of my parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses. My father had been acting forgetful and confused and he had been in the hospital for ten
