New Drive

I went to pick up something from one of Deborah’s old neighbors and I realized that it was the first time I had driven in that direction since Deborah moved in July.

Language of the Mind

As my mom’s condition changes—although she seems to be stabilizing lately—it is interesting what words and phrases come out of here mouth. A couple of examples from today’s zoom

Films Not to Sleep to

Foreign films are not good films to watch when you are tired, or more specifically, trying to fall asleep in front of the tv. It is too hard to follow the story with

Tech Speak

The free flow of language means that expressions flow back and forth between written language and spoken language. This is especially true with phrases that have a technical meaning, and yet people have

Truth and Beauty

The words that come out of the mouth of a dementia patient are as likely to be gibberish as they are to be words conveying truth and beauty. Sometimes it is even both