You know you’re poor when you eat something you don’t want to eat for the simple reason, that you paid for it.

People with dementia have a difficult time being corrected. Very difficult.
Allowing someone to be right when they are wrong isn’t that big a deal. Wish I’d learned the skill earlier.

I miss writing. My wife reminds me of how rich in anecdotes our lives are. We should document our family histories before they are lost. She was a dorm supervisor at a prep school for foreign students. Two Asian students, both named Yung, were visiting at the window of a couple of girls. My wife cal...

It’s been said, “If you’ve met one person with dementia, you’ve met one person with dementia.” My wife lives very much in the moment. She is gracious, funny and appreciative. Once she asked if we had eaten. We had, about an hour earlier. I recounted what we ate and she replied, “Aww, that sounds lik...

I love it that Harry and Meghan of Windsor are in the news so much now. We have so many opportunities to point out when the reporters say “Royal duties”.

Ha ha, they just said their royal duties are being taken away. I wish I had someone to take my duties away.

Living with someone with dementia is bitter sweet. There are so many things my wife, in her younger years, would appreciate and see humor in. She was drawing a bath and the water was too hot. She decided to drain the water and start over. We just don’t appreciate our brains enough.

That moment when I enter a room and forget why... oh yeah, I was being chased by a serial killer.

I hit the age where I can start smoking and not worry about cancer, and drink all I want without fear of cirrhosis. I wonder if I can stop washing the pesticides off of my vegetables.

I hit an age where I could no longer ride roller coasters or thrill rides and I thought that kind of excitement was over for me. Enter: vertigo.

Say my name three times in front of a mirror at midnight and I will appear, and probably try to talk you into a game of chess with a few made up rules to make it more fun, and then check to see if you have any Wheat Thins, cream cheese and Coke.