Turns out, I’m APoE4 positive My Grandpa disappeared into the vortex of Alzheimer’s disease over the course of more than a decade before he finally left this world in a morphine nap at the age of 89. It was a terrible thing, to watch the journey from his first noticeable lapses—“My onboard computer is on…
Category: aging
New year, same old me
I can’t believe we’ve made it to 2023. It sounds so far in the FUTURE. I mean—as someone born in 1971—I grew up with the year 2000 as the shimmering threshold of a futuristic technotopia. We haven’t quite figured out the utopia aspect yet, but we truly do have a lot more tech, for better…
GenX women run the world
We are a small and cynical generation who started life with rotary dial phones and now upgrade our iPhones at every opportunity. We grew up on HR Pufnstuff, but somehow have the attention span to read all of the George RR Martin books and watch both HBO dragon series. We’ve been going to rock shows…
50 Things I’ve Learned in 50 Years
I’m older, but am I wiser? A half a century is a long time to be alive, but here I am. Given my massive boatload of life experiences, here are some things I think I have learned, or I’m still trying to learn. 1. Parenting is relative. My parents were not good parents. This is…
Plumb Wonderful 