lewy-body disease Archives

Broken minds and perspective

by Robin | Jun 20, 2010 | Faith, Family, Personal, Poetry

Chronicled fours years ago as my siblings and I watched my father's slow-motion, heart-breaking end-of-life, this poem stands as one of the most important pieces I've ever penned. As my heart bleeds words in witness of painful circumstance, I never let...

Call me anytime…

by Robin | Sep 23, 2009 | Family, Fathers and daughters, Parenting, Personal

"Call me anytime." It was how all my phone calls ended with Daddy, usually the sentence just prior to the "I love yous" that substituted "goodbye". Though I never said it, I often thought "YOU call ME!" because I...

A Different Kind of Father’s Day

by Robin | Jun 18, 2006 | Aging, Family, Fathers and daughters, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized

This time last year, my dad’s mental faculty was declining but he was still living a fairly “normal” life. Now 74, until the past year or so he’s been pretty active and seemed younger than his chronological age. With his dementia onset on our...