Tag Archives: Alzheimer’s

Review of Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening Than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet by Michael Mark

Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening Than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet is a poetry chapbook (a small collection of poems). The poems center around the end of the poet’s mother’s life, including memories of the mother … Continue reading

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Experiencing Grace

My mother speaks in scripts now. She bears the look of the very old. Clouded eyes and clouded mind. Alzheimer’s? The doctor said sometimes it’s impossible to know until an autopsy. I am my mother’s keeper. I see her daily … Continue reading

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Trusting Him in the Dark, Judy Robertson

  Where was the husband I once had? It all seemed so unreal. Jim, the in-charge work-a-holic, now was unable to add numbers or take care of his own personal needs. It had only been three years since Jim was … Continue reading

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