A Story About Grieving On A Solo Cross-Country Drive Lucinda Koza “ If I stopped moving forward, I would be prolonging this guilt incarnate, which is not what I wanted. However, moving forward and away from my dad was not what I wanted either.
This Is What It’s Like To Have A Loved One With Dementia Chelsea George “ You try to see the positives, remember that you are so lucky to know that time is running out, until you flip that coin and realize that you have to watch the sand slowly flow through the hourglass.
This Is What Happens When You Love Someone With Dementia Kassie Doherty “ Slowly I started to see the Nanny I knew to be so insanely independent become dependent on others to help her live.
37 Terrifyingly Awful Ways To Die Lorenzo Jensen III “ “Consciously drowning. Imagine being totally awake and aware of your faculties, hopelessly stuck underwater, and having to convince yourself to breathe in or pass out.”
8 Ways Dementia Becomes A Beautiful Metaphor For Life Sarah Scheidt “ Dementia, in a weird and somehow paralleled way, is a huge metaphor for life. The cryptic lessons that dementia taught you bring you back to the most basic building blocks of humanity. Life is messy and hard and nonsensical, but love is the only thing that makes sense of it all.
A 27-Year-Old’s Diary Entries from Early November, 1978 Richard Grayson “ Ronna admitted that she is jealous of him even if he’s totally straight; she’s worried that I’m going to become Manhattan-trendy and start shooting heroin. She said she’s been wanting to ask me if I’m in love with him. “I am, a little,” I told her.
The Invisible Statistic: How My Grandmother Became A Victim of Elder Abuse Alan Ryland “ For a time, I was enraged at an extended family that knew perfectly well what was going on, but chose to look the other way, because it’s easier to ignore the elephant in the room, even when it’s practically stamping on your head.
You Don’t Know It, But Life Is A Numbers Game Ashley Holzmann “ It’s all in the numbers. That’s how you understand anything of real value in this world.