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This is what it's like
The next paragraph is more entertaining than this one. I was substituting for Suzanne at 2 PM, and I had an "Up Close" event at 10 AM, and I had a lot of grading to do. The Up Close event was my "math and improv" workshop. So I went to a coffee shop at 8:05 to work on planning it (I'd done it before, but a while ago, and wanted to change it up) ( Read more... ) -
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Visiting parents tomorrow. They are 90. Mom's dementia is really bad at this point. She used to beat me at chess. She'd play game after game of cards with me, or board games, and all that. And did all the traditional Housewife things for the four children, and then later the two stepchildren. And we were always talking and laughing - never ( Read more... ) -
It was time.
Packing up the LEGO ( Read more... ) -
Ma.
The day after I wrote about her forgetting me, we went to breakfast and it was just her and me in the car. She drove really well - ha, ha, no, just kidding, I drove. Anyway, she was talking and I said something and she said, "I was a good mother." The tone was interesting - it was like a conclusion she was coming to. Like she meant, "Based on ( Read more... ) -
AIN: SoCal
I ran into someone at breakfast. He said we'd met in Montreal. I didn't remember him. He is a facebook friend, evidently, so I can't post about this on facebook. He looked familiar. I'm in a conference where hundreds of people look familiar.
He said he loved what I did on the bus. I had to ask what I did on the bus. According to him, I took ( Read more... ) -
Visiting my parents, after a month in Ann Arbor
Hey, Dementia is bad, but not THAT bad! My mom remembers raising three children, right? That's good! She may forget details, or who she is talking to, and spouses names, and the ten grandchildren - even I can't keep them all straight. But she remembers being married to my biological father, and raising three children with him, and marrying my ( Read more... ) -
Start of Ann Arbor, year 6
So on Saturday AM I drove to Huntley, IL to visit my parents (about 4.5 hours). I wound up getting a late start because first I wanted to have brekkie with L and F, but F was at a sleepover. But I got on the road, got to the parents, and had dinner with them and Al, and then watched Inglorious Basterds with them ( Read more... ) -
This is what it's like
Normal things that happen to normal people, but always with a "You're Doug Shaw, remember?" twist ( Read more... ) -
Browser History
Your 20s: Hee hee if I die, my best friend knows to delete my browser history hee hee ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes it is like this
I'm in a room where I know nobody. I'm the youngest person in the room. I know, I know. And I am standing next to someone... whom I know! But I don't know his name, I've forgotten it. I don't know him very well. But he says hello to me, by name. And then ( Read more... )