This picture of the old switchboard room looks like utter chaos:  lines crisscrossing everywhere, 1000s of possible connections, people frozen in time.  If we could listen in, we’d hear a jumble of voices, but it’d […]

I’ve had an old Hank Williams’ song running through my head for days: “Well, why don’t you love me like you used to do?  How come you treat me like a worn out shoe?” I figured […]

I saw my doctor last week for a physical, and had to get a shot.  I haven’t had a shot since I was, I don’t know, 12. When the nurse came in with the needle, […]

I recently watched a Teepa Snow video in which she discussed the first symptoms of dementia.  The comment she made that struck me was that you didn’t recognize it as dementia then, but looking back, you […]

I so wanted to write one of those “shiny happy people holding hands” New Year’s messages.  One of those posts you’d save for the rest of your life, pull out even on Columbus Day, because […]

I was talking to a friend yesterday when we both went into one of those “I can’t remember” moments.  Sadly, I don’t even remember what we didn’t remember.  But she laughed and said she felt […]

Listen up, people.  I have some things I need to say now, in case I get dementia later.  I won’t be able to tell you these things then, so let’s get this over with.  I […]

I can just look at this picture of the Cowardly Lion and chuckle.  And if I listen to his courage speech or his King of the Forest song, then I’m pretty much guaranteed to laugh […]

I love a good carnival.  Roller coasters, crystal ball seers, that creepy guy running The Himalayan ride who won’t let you off the damn thing even though you beg for mercy as you fly by […]

There’s a scene in the Clint Eastwood classic, “Pale Rider,” where one of the cowboys exclaims (after witnessing Eastwood’s “Preacher” character whoop up on the bad guys): “Preacher, my ass!”  That’s how I feel today […]