Meet Kathleen Wheeler, Author of Brought to Our Senses
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 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 Cathie Borrie In an almost Zen-like poetic form, my mother revealed the changing landscape of her mind: “Listen, Cathie . . . a bird!” “What are the birds saying?’ “They’re chirping.”
By Ann Campanella In my early 30s, I learned that life can change direction when you least expect it. My husband Joel and I had moved from Houston to North Carolina in
By Paula Spencer Scott I knew little about dementia back when my grandmother began using a kitchen pot for a commode. Or when my dad began wailing, “Oh why didn’t anyone tell me?”
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 Jana Panarites On a Monday night in November 2009, I had what turned out to be the last conversation I would ever have with my father. He and my mother had
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 Judith Henry What was your motivation to write about your experience as a caregiver? I believe some of our most profound lessons come, not from books, but from being there for
By Constance Vincent, PhD. When my parents first began to have memory problems, I was in denial. As a psychologist teaching university classes on aging, I had always emphasized the positive aspects
By Sandra Bullock Smith When I first started caring for my mother, I had no apprehension over how difficult the caregiving job would be. I am a strong, capable woman and my
