While caring for my wife during the last 4 years of her life (she suffered from Primary Progressive Aphasia) I…
I am two people. Within days after May 8th of this year when my wife died, I began thinking of…
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…
As my wife slept in her new bedroom, this week I began going through the almost four decades of paper…
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…
About two weeks ago, I published a post saying that I was collecting a series of essays by caregivers on…