Alzheimer’s—and seeing Alzheimer’s--
  • Unremitting tiredness, a thin and faded dimension of tiredness that underlies or overlays every other ordinary fatigue—
  • An unending one-way street, always leading into the same shadowy and unpoetic cul-de-sac—
  • Unintelligible sentences, trying especially hard, therefore especially convoluted, when a touching topic of childhood or long-term memory comes up, and simple Yes and No answers to simple questions, but never any guarantee of valid answers to even the simplest questions, like Have you eaten?—
  • Traces of the foundation left behind in a moved building: the esthetic sense intact. My mother can still tell when her hair is ...   more »