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A Chance to Help Others Ch.246
A Covid Outbreak at The Refuge Includes Pat and Then Ron Ch.135
A Death in the Family Ch.140
A Feeling of Helplessness Ch.65
A Fisherman Named Grief Reels Me In Ch.161
A Good Day to Remember Ch.131
A Good Sign: I Realize I Am Not Alone in Grieving Ch.163
A Great Week Ch.304
A Joyful Holiday Ch.278
A Joyful Musical Memory Ch.186
A Lesson in Humility: Ron the Caregiver Needs Care Ch. 140
A Note to Judy Ch.187
A Pretty Good Life Ch.192
A Rainbow Appears Just When I Need It Ch.171
A Sad Day At the Refuge Ch. 122
A Special Loneliness Ch.286
A Woman On My Arm Ch.249
Second Christmas without Pat Ch.232
A Simple Gesture of Respect Ch.110
A Sudden Setback and a Big decision for Ron Ch.127
Acceptance: Yes; Passivity: No Ch.20
Adding Structure Challenges Lack of Initiative Caused by Lewy Body. Ch.23
After Helen Died... Ch.305
Am I Abandoning Pat? Ch.212
Am I a Helicopter Husband? Ch.2
An Emotional Roller Coaster Day Ch.72
An Unexpected Invitation Ch.214
An Unpleasant Surprise: I May Have Cancer Ch.200
Animal Stories Ch. 315
Are we Still On the Same Team? Ch.85
Beautiful Service, Somber Burial, Unending Grief Ch.157
Being Lost is Not a Great Experience Ch.78
Birds, Bunnies and Deer Ch.312
Blackcap Pie, Memory Loss and Confusion. Ch.28
Blackbird Safety Plan Ch.289
Borscht Belt humor Ch.302
Caregiver Meltdown Ch.26
Care Partner Goals: Safety, Pleasure, Joy. Ch.58
Chair Climber Removal Ch. 284
Chasing After My Horse and Wondering About My Future Ch.168
Convergence: Old Life and New Ch.306
Citizen of the Year Ch.260
Creative Dining the Lewy Body Way. Ch.133
Critical Decisions: Pat and Levi Ch.211
Dangerous Territory: Watching "My Name is Otto" Ch.182
Depression and Lewy Body. Ch.16
Disheartening Morning; Somber Afternoon; Beautiful Evening. Ch. 100
Doing OK But a Little Empty Ch.190
Don't Blame the Raccoon Ch.294
Don't Leave a Mess Behind Ch.198
Eighteen Months a Widower Ch.233
Empathy for a Couple Dealing with Dementia. Ch.170
End of Year 2025 Reflections: Ch.308
Ending My Widower Identity Ch.247
Ending our Book on a Positive Note.. and Starting Another. Ch.52
Every Caregiver Needs an Overload Specialist. Ch.80
Everything Goes Wrong Ch.201
Exhaustion and Relief Ch. 64
Evidence of Healing Ch.221
Fear and Caution Ch.311
Feeling Empty on Pat's Birthday Ch.216
Feeling Normal Feels Great Ch. 203
Finding Pat's Quilt Ch.298
First Airplane Flight After Pat's Death Ch.199
First Christmas Without Pat Ch.178
First Pat and Then Ron Join a Memory Choir Ch.15
First Serious Illness in Years Ch.264
Four Tremendous Surprises Ch.288
Frustration Ch.89
Get Me Through December Ch.197
Getting Stuck in the Courtyard Brings Back a Sad Memory Ch.145
Good Day/Bad Day: The Lewy Body Roller Coaster is Still Operating. Ch.139
Good Days. Ch.4
Good News: Pat Lodges One Complaint and Makes Two Requests. Ch.119
Good Signs That I am Returning to Life Ch.167
Goodbye to Geezer and Crone Ch.244
Goodbye to My Mineral Collection Ch.271
Grief is Like Three Trees Ch.240
Grief's Two tsks. Ch.279
Grievers' Enemy: Lonely Weekends Ch.215
Grieving for Levi Ch.275
Hallucinations from Outside and Inside Ch.1
Hanging On or Getting Through My Loss? Ch.207
Happy Memories Don't Have to Make Me Sad Ch.164
Heartache Ch.158
Helping Momma Rabbit Save Her Baby Ch.252
Here's What We've been Avoiding Telling You Ch.105
Hoping for a Miracle Ch.74
Hospice. Ch.117
How Can We Keep Pat involved in the Conversation? Ch. 70
How to Kill a Lawnmower Ch.292
Huntington's Disease Conference Ch.273
Huntington's Disease Facilitator Ch.262
I Am a Witness who Can't Witness Ch.183
I Can No Longer Keep Lakota Safe Ch.188
I Can See Pat Better Now Ch.228
I Feel Too Full of Feelings Ch.219
I Give Away 150 Bales of Hay Ch. 209
I Love You, Sometimes. Ch.141
I Still Cannot Separate "Alone" from "Lonely." Ch.179
I Think I Did OK but Not Better Than OK Ch.68
I Thought I Could Do It Myself Ch.310
I Visit Pat's Grave on Her Birthday. Ch.165
I Wasn't Talking in My Sleep. I Was Talking in Your Sleep Ch.35
I Watch a Couple Holding hands -- and I Remember Ch.162
I Wonder What I've Missed Ch.134
If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry. Ch. 24
I'm Going to Italy Ch.280
I'm Grateful for All Those Who Care about Me. Ch.227
I'm Grateful We Can Still Disagree Ch.69
I'm Here at The Refuge, Aren't I, to Stay Ch.108
I'm Not Good at "Frivolous" Ch.300
I'm Ready to be Gone Ch.123
I'm Scared to Travel Away from Pat Ch.19
Important Blog Changes Ch.265
It's a Good Thing we are Both Introverts Ch.54
Keep On Trucking but I Won't Regret a Thing Ch.25
Keeping "Victories" and "Defeats" in Perspective Ch.126
Lacey Died Today/An evening with Lacey (poem) Ch. 303
Lakota, My Horse, has Died Ch.245
Letting Go of a Great Resentment Ch.193
Letting Go of Our Mineral Collection Ch.259
Levi Dies Suddenly Ch.274
Levi Hasn't Eaten for Three Days Ch.206
Lewy Body Affects Pat's Sense of Time. Ch.46
Lewy Body Dialogue Talk Ch.250
Lewy Body Helps Pat Find a Way to Honor her Deceased Brother Ch.86
Life is Good Ch.243
Little Joys/Good Life Ch.316
Loneliness Panic Attack Ch.231
Looking Ahead to an Uncertain Future Ch.172
Looking into the Void: Pat's Blank Stare Scares Ron Ch.142
Loneliness Anxiety Ch.281
Loneliness Encounter Ch.269
Love Songs, Sudden Tears Ch.256
Many Small Frustrations Ch.51
McKenzie Maria McGillicutty: How to Have a Little Fun When it is Hard Finishing Your Sentences. Ch.104
More Losses Coming Ch.241
Mornings Can Be Unpredictable in our Lewy Body World. Ch.43
Mortality. Ch.13
Mother's Day Memories Ch.202
My Brother Art has Died Ch.253
My Children and Me Ch.293
My Friend Howard's Joyful End of Life Ch.194
My Greatest Caregiver Mistake Ch.257
My Home, One Chapter at a Time Ch.299
My Horse is in Trouble. Ch.242
My Grieving Brain Ch.223
My Neighbors have Departed Ch.263
My New Challenge Ch.296
My Twin Brother and My New Life Ch.229
My Two Worlds Ch.213
Need for Support, The Ch.5
Night Out with the Guys Ch.237
Noise Ch.3
Not Driving -- A Blow to Pat's Spirit Ch.18
Now What Will Give Meaning to My Life? Ch.160
Oh, Pat. Thousands of Shell Pieces Ch. 282
One Year Anniversary of Pat's Death Ch.204
Our Children Want Us to Move into the City Ch.47
Our 58th Anniversary Ch.208
Our Two Truths are like Oil and Water Ch.48
Pat and I Go Shopping Together for the First Time in Over a Year Ch.84
Pat and Judy's Radiant Smiles Ch. 225
Pat and I have a Serious Conversation about Death and Loneliness Ch.111
Pat and I Watch a Movie whose Main Character has Dementia Ch. 75
Pat and Ron Confront the Corona Virus Ch.21
Pat Asks Ron How He has been Affected by Her Lewy Body. Ch.40
Pat Begins Taking a Strong Pain Reliever. Ch.109
Pat Calls Me "Dad" and that Feels OK. Ch.53
Pat Cannot Say Ron's Name Ch.118
Pat Develops a Serious Auto-Immune Disorder Ch.62
Pat Died Three Years Ago Ch.295
Pat Eats Little but seems Unconcerned Ch.91
Pat Forgets but then She Remembers Ch.71
Pat Guides Me Through the Desert Ch.230
Pat has a Second Syncope Episode --but Doesn't Remember It. Ch.61
Pat Has Almost Two Pain Free Hours and Ron Begins to Relax Ch.114
Pat is Taken Off Opioid Pain Medication and Immediately Functions Better Ch.120
Pat has Gumption Ch.63
Pat is Home with Me in my Heart. Ch.103
Pat is Transferred to a Rehab Facility Ch. 98
Pat Joins a Memory Choir. Ch.36
Pat Keeps Losing Weight Even Though She Eats well Ch.144
Pat Moves to a Very Good Memory Care Center Ch.107
Pat No Longer Has the Ability to Help Write This Dialogue Ch.143
Pat Outwits a Would-Be Seducer Ch. 88
Pat Potter-Efron Obituary Ch.148
Pat Quietly Passes Away. Ch.147
Pat Rallies and Says Something Beautiful Ch.125
Pat Reads Nancy Drew to Ron Ch.102.
Pat Realizes She's been Hallucinating Ch.34
Pat Returns to the Hospital Ch. 97
Pat Still Gets to Choose Ch.116
Pat Tells Me How Each Rock is Special Ch.113
Pat Tells Me How She is Growing Ch.96
Pat Tells Us She is in Charge Ch. 81
Pat Tells us about a Major Decision She Made. Ch. 60
Pat Thinks Better than She Can Speak. Ch.112
Pat's Protectors Work Together to Help her Heal Ch.130
Pat was Diagnosed with Lewy Body Exactly Four Years Ago Today Ch.137
Pat's Been Gone Exactly Six Months Today Ch.180
Pat's Last Gift Ch.173
Pat's Lewy Body Brain Ch.238
Pat's Childhood Home: Next Chapter Ch.290
Pat Would Have Been 81 Years Old Today Ch.301
Pat's Younger Brother Kevin Just Died Ch.79
Physical Intimacy -- Hugs and More Ch.10
Please Worry Just a Little Ch.220
Porch Bird Watching on the First Beautiful Spring Day of the Year Ch.27
Pre-Arranging My Funeral Ch.235
Preparing for Florence Ch.286
Prostate Cancer Ch.313
Questions for the New Year: 2019 and then 2020 Ch.9
Reading Still Alice. Ch.174
Remembering Pat During the Holiday Season Ch.175
Respect for a Man with Dementia Ch.270
Reminiscences: "Tripping" with Pat Ch.195
Resilience Ch.267
Rocks and Quilts Ch.266
Ron Becomes Anxious and Irritable Ch.59
Ron Begins to Recover His Sense of Humor Ch.169
Ron Feels a Premonition Ch.146
Ron Goes to a Quilting Show with a Friend Ch.166
Ron Has a Panic Attack and Pat has a Urinary Tract Infection Ch.92
Ron, Lion Club Member Ch.238
Ron Makes a Serious Mistake and then So Does Pat Ch.37
Ron Refuses to Give Up Hope Ch.138
Ron Reminds Pat of her Accomplishments Ch.89
Ron the Extrovert Ch.226
Ron, You Used to be Funnier Ch.129
Ron's Covid Fatigue Helps Him Understand How Lewy Body Affects Pat Ch.136
Ron's Good Deed Ch.248
Sand Hill Crane Family Ch.255
Second Anniversary of Pat's Death Ch.258
Second Christmas Without Pat Ch.232
Sharing Joy with Levi Ch.254
Short- and Long-Term Memory issues Ch.56
"Showtime" Ch.8
Slightly Unusual Behaviors Ch.17
Slow Motion Panic Attack Ch.49
Some Days You Just Want to Cry Ch.6
Some Mornings are Full of People Ch.30
Something Bad had happened to Lakota. And Pat has a Fall Ch. 66
Spreading Out My Need for Affirmation Ch.185
Spring Colors and the Lewy Body Lifestyle Ch. 87
Starter of Follower Ch.292
Sudden Mood Changes Ch. 22
Taste and Touch Connect Us Ch.121
Tears of Love Ch.106
Thanking My Animals. Ch.308
The Apocalypse Arrived and Yet it was Not Apocalyptic Ch. 39
The Body Keeps the Score Ch.77
The Gobbler and the Slowpoke: How Lewy Body Affects our Mealtimes. Ch.76
The Shape of My Life is Emerging Ch.181
The Sound of a Goose's Flight Ch.251
The Story of Blackberry the Steer: How Pat Saved a Life and Gained a Large Friend Ch 101
The Transition to the Assisted Living Center was Going Well --Until the Fire Alarm Went Off. Ch.95
The Universality of Grief Ch.177
Things Fall Apart Ch.189
Thirteen Pounds of Salt Ch.234
Three Grieving Men Ch.205
Time is IN My Hands Ch.184
Time is Running Out Ch.124
This is MY House Ch.67
Three Acts of Generosity Help Me Feel Hopeful Ch.191
Three Surprises Ch.283
Today's Surprise: Ron Gets a Heart Stent. Ch.32
Transitions.Ch.159
Treefall Ch.297
Twenty-Four Hours of Chaos Ch.94
Two Exhausting Days Ch.44
Two Surprise Visits from Pat Ch.239
Two Rons Ch.45
Under the Snow Ch.277
Unprepared for Life After Lewy Body: Ron's Fear of Boredom. Ch.156
Wailing on the Day Pat Died Ch.222
Waiting Ch.276
Waking Dreams, RBD, and Sleep Deprivation Ch.14
Walking at Daybreak Ch.224
Walking My Cat Ch.210
Walking to the Creek to Talk with Pat Ch.176
Watching Pat's Memory Choir Brings Sadness and Joy Ch.196
We are Still a Team Ch.12
We're Ready to Accept Help Ch.93
What Comes Next? The Lewy Body Sequencing Problem Ch.11
What Happened to "Us" When Pat Died? Ch.218
What Was Supposed to Bring Pride Brings Shame Instead Ch. 38.
Who Would take Care of Pat If I Couldn't? Ch.42
Who Should I Tell I have Lewy Body? Acceptance, Embarrassment, Shame and Trust Ch.7
Why Am I Still Writing? ch.272
Why is Grief Such a Strange Feeling? Ch.217
Why Is It so Hard for Pat to Make Choices? Ch.82
Why Now? Pat has a Flare Up of her Auto-Immune Disease Ch. 99
Widower's Time/Empty House Ch.314
Witnessing Grief Ch.309
Wonderful Florence Ch.287
Working Together Ch.55
Year End Review: A Lewy Body Year of Transition Ch.115