This is the last day of the first year since Jackie’s death and I am amazed how my life has…
I never was afraid of grief or loss. After a long career in the military I had no illusions about…
While caring for my wife during the last 4 years of her life (she suffered from Primary Progressive Aphasia) I…
I found myself singing this morning. That wasn’t unusual in itself; years ago I had the unconscious habit, without obvious…
I am two people. Within days after May 8th of this year when my wife died, I began thinking of…
I don’t think I could be a columnist, putting out a column every day, I just don’t have that tenacity.…
I have come into a new phase in my life, my attitude has been altered and I have very little…
We are clearly in the last days. She sleeps 95% of the time and when she does open her eyes,…
The Greek philosopher, Socrates, is held to be the originator of the statement that ‘the unexamined life is not worth…
Satchel Paige, the famous pitcher, said, ‘Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.’ As a caregiver I try…
It is interesting to me that I experience emotions in a sort of physical or physiologic manner. The way my…
It is ironic that, as my wife gets worse, as her disease progresses, my life becomes less time-stressed. This ‘new…
If you have ever been on a long plane ride, say more than 12 hours, inevitably you have prepared by…
As my wife slept in her new bedroom, this week I began going through the almost four decades of paper…
I am always looking for guest authors who will write about their life from a viewpoint that I don’t have…
Psychologists use mice to test all sorts of theories about conditioning, learned behavior and stress. One specific one (that I…
Writing blog pieces whose subject is an ongoing painful personal life circumstance, like I and many of you readers are…
I am very well prepared for material problems. Whenever I believe I see something unpleasant about to happen, I look…
The pain of seeing my wife deteriorate and knowing that today will always be better than tomorrow is sometimes almost…
There are very few times in my life , perhaps only two, that I have been faced with terrifying, fear-inducing…