Before Dementia

We’d given up hope that we’d have a second child and had let the years accumulate without pining too much for the wished-for number two…

Tracy the Leprechaun visited us every year on March 17. He left yellowed notes on tiny scraps of paper each year, handwritten in a left-handed cursive…

Our daughter started school at 4 ½ when she was accepted to a year-round elementary program in San Francisco. Robert took her to school on the back of his bike…

We met at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1982. Robert was taking a creative writing class at UT-Austin and his professor, David, was fond of his wild…

My husband, Robert, was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) in 2017. Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease when they hear the “D” word…