A Long, Lonely Journey: Loving a Spouse Who is Living with Dementia

In September 2018 I attended a day-long writing conference in Toronto. The timing was perfect - it was two days before our flight to British...

So many of us have celebrated a birthday during the pandemic it ought not to feel unusual, unfair, or unhappy. Mine, long ago in the early s...

I recently discovered an old, old cover letter I’d written (being used as a bookmark in a Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ) back w...

When I am in the world with Doug I try to live in the present; I try not to dwell on what could have been, or what isn’t . . . though of cou...

When Doug was first diagnosed with MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) I wanted to know everything. At the time I was somewhere in the middle of...

(Doug and I on our wedding day, August 4th, 2012) My first marriage was unhealthy, unhappy, and I am lucky to have survived. For a long time...

When Doug and I first met (online) he wrote that he was looking for someone who would walk into his circle of friends, and whose circle of f...