Dementia

Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a Memoir

Buried In Print2017-07-24T15:12:22-04:00

Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed and Maurice Mierau's Detachment: An Adoption Memoir are a perfect pair. Penguin Random House, 2014 And the Mountains Echoed begins with a story, told by a father to his son and his daughter. "Father never felt more present to Abdullah, more vibrant, revealed,

Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a MemoirBuried In Print2017-07-24T15:12:22-04:00

Notes on Reading Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol’s Love and Forgetting

Buried In Print2014-06-26T14:47:23-04:00

While Love and Forgetting was in my stack of current reads, I listened to the World Book Club's podcast edition of a discussion of Albert Camus' The Outsider. Camus is someone whose work I associate with formal study, not pleasure, but Harriet Gilbert's interviews draw me into subjects I don't

Notes on Reading Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol’s Love and ForgettingBuried In Print2014-06-26T14:47:23-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles

Buried In Print2014-03-10T19:58:12-04:00

Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me Freehand Books, 2010 It’s not just a problem for the curly-headed folks: even with straight hair, there are tangles, knots, and snarls. Everybody can relate to the struggle to make a course smooth once more. And these days, increasingly

Drawing Conclusions: Sarah Leavitt’s TanglesBuried In Print2014-03-10T19:58:12-04:00