Have you ever reached a moment while reading a story when you suddenly stop and say to yourself, “Wait! Pay attention. This is important.” Something about the story is more than just a story. Something is happening that resonates, teaches, fills you somehow. One of the best known examples is TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. It […]
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The next phase of the study is to have an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of my head. Bear in mind, I’m not yet in the actual study. This is just preliminary to make sure I qualify. The neuropsych test was to establish a baseline of cognitive function. I’m not sure but I think that if […]
ALZHIEMER’S STUDY, THIRD MEETING So I finished the neuropsych test. I’ve taken them before. The first was after we had to place my mother in a nursing home. Her boyfriend and the eldercare social worker both called me and my sister to tell us that Mother could no longer live without support. She lived in […]
I have had my second meeting with the UT people running the clinical trial in this part of the world. It’s a huge study and we here are just a small part of it. Back with Christine. First they have to show me the results of my DNA test. I already knew that I had […]
Every woman in my immediate family who manages to live to age 75 has developed Alzheimers disease. So far both my aunts and their mother died from ALZ. My mother is still alive, in a manner of speaking. She is 92. Her body has failed her by remaining healthy while her brain, for all intents […]
On the day the world ended, Tianna walked home from school just as she had always done in the fabled glass and crystal city of Crystallania. In one day it is destroyed, her father is killed and her mother left shattered with grief. Tianna must muster all her strength to travel with strangers through the […]
Broken Things was conceived in a conversation over lunch with Edward Albee, my teacher at University of Houston. He had told me that I was a playwright, information for which I was very grateful, and I told him about my teenage son who is autistic. I said that I would like to write a play […]
The Services of Women was performed in April of 1999 at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas as part of Edward Albee’s New Playwrights Series. The director was T. Scott Allen. The stage manager and sound designer was John Smetak. K. David Cochran did lighting design. Darryl Connor was the costume designer and Leila Kousheshi […]
I don’t need a pet. I have a robot vacuum cleaner. Since all pets have names, mine is called Suckie Vacunna. The “Suckie” part is fairly obvious, since my pet is a working one, she, in her own way, sucks up detritus from the floor. “Vacunna” comes from my friend, Larry, who, as a child, […]
Adam has been a part of Special Olympics since high school. He has done track and field, bowling, bocci, softball and basketball but the one that as really caught his fancy is equestrian. Adam loves horses. He tells everybody from sales clerks to bank tellers that he is in Special Olympics Equine. He tells me […]