Tag Archives: Alzheimer’s

I Want My Mother Back

Posted on May 14, 2013 by lisa

I want my mean, bitchy, drunk mother back. The mother who was depressed and melancholy, who said cruel things about my work and criticized my parenting, who undermined instructions to my kids by saying “You really don’t have to pay … Continue reading →

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Do I Want to Know if I Will Come Down with Alzheimers?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by lisa

Five years ago, right before her seventy-eighth birthday, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The symptoms had been apparent for several years but alcohol masked some of them and denial, perhaps, masked others. Once my mother finally entered a rehabilitation … Continue reading →

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Note: Call Doctor Re Memory & Knowledge Loss. Terrified.

Posted on December 10, 2009 by lisa

There are post-it notes all over my mother’s room at the assisted living place where she has lived since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the summer of 2005. She loves post-it notes. She likes them in bright colors like hot … Continue reading →

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DIRT

Posted on May 20, 2009 by lisa

Salon..com http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/19/kramer_dirt/index.html recently ran an article and an interview with the editor of a new book of essays I am included in, called DIRT: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House. In the article the writer says … Continue reading →

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My Mother Has Already Forgotten Thanksgiving

Posted on December 3, 2008 by lisa

I had this admittedly crazy idea to fly up north and fly with my mother back down to my small Virginia town so that she could spend a couple of days with me, see my teenaged daughter whom she hasn’t … Continue reading →

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