MEMORY’S LAST BREATH goes on a field trip: First stop, Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
Last week, Hachette’s Publicity & Marketing Manager, superwoman Hallie Patterson, arranged meet-and-greets for us on Thursday 13th April with three Seattle bookstores: Elliot Bay Book Company, Third Place Book in Lake Forest Park, and Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island. We came home on Monday, still overwhelmed by the hospitality of each of these remarkable establishments. […]
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Published on April 21, 2017 16:10
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Field Notes on My Dementia
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah soon after my diagnosis, I completed a memoir, MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: FIELD NOTES ON MY DEMENTIA, which is forthcoming from Hachette Books in June 2017. But dementia does not hold still. Like anyone with a degenerative brain disease, I continue to dement every day, never done until I die. Every time my brain suffers an additional insult, I have less brain power to puzzle out my remaining “self.” There will come a time when I don’t care or don’t know who I am. Until then, though, I hope to maintain this website with the help of my saintly and tech-savvy husband, Peter.
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