it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why..

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities….

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me..

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms….

My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing h….

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would eve….

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward..

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that w….

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself..

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about he….

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape..

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, wit….

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and oth….

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change..

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally..

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it excep….

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle..

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person..

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, co….

It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in….

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along..