Road Trip Memory

I love my sister, Lisa, but there are days when time traveling with her can be tricky. Given her intellectual disabilities and the challenges of aging, I’m growing less certain about her accurate recall of family events and incidents. I’m noticing that she has a way of ‘patchwork-quilting‘ moments together – retrieving memories from the slideshow in her head that must be more mixed up than my own some days.

When our mom, Sue’s dementia took hold it became obvious; the fragments of lies an...