Memory’s Last Breath is a finalist in Utah’s 2018 15 Bytes Book Awards, Gerda reads at Sam Weller’s on October 18
For the past 6 years, 15 Bytes, “Utah’s Art Magazine,” has offered literary awards for adult fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The 15 Bytes Book Awards are the only statewide literary book award for professional, independently published books that appeared in the previous year. Three guest, Utah-based, judges were tasked with ranking nominations based on […]
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Published on September 19, 2018 19:53
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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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