Case files
The section overview for honest, no-miracle stories about memory lapses and clarity concerns after sixty, told through household case files and the hooks fears run on.
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A Name Forgotten at a Wake
Last spring I stood at a wake in a church basement, holding a paper plate of potato salad, and I could not call up the name of the woman walking toward me. I had filled her pill bottles for eleven years. I knew her husband’s name, her dog’s name, her street. Hers was gone. So…
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Talking to Family About a Lapse
In my own kitchen last Tuesday, I introduced my husband to the woman from the library as “this is — this is — ” and nothing came. Her name is Margaret. I have known her eleven years. She is on my paper calendar twice a month. The name simply stepped out of the room, the…