Visits: 31 As my father lost his memory, he began to regard my gender as increasingly fluid. My father and I were in Starbucks about a year after he learned he had Alzheimer’s when he looked me up and down …
Modern Love: The Day His Journal Went Blank
Visits: 23 My father stood in the kitchen eating refried beans from the can with a fork as Paul Simon sang “Graceland” on repeat for 20 minutes. “Hey Alexa, why don’t we take a break, huh?” he finally said, as …
Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
Visits: 35 Unlike my mother’s usual emails (with the entire message crammed into the subject line), this one had no text, only an attached photo. I clicked on the file and reeled at the picture of her, emaciated, with a …