Practice for Developing Alzheimer’s: Part I-Embracing Senior Moments Stan Goldberg November 18, 2019 Aging, Alzheimer’s/dementia 6 Comments best rated beverage refrigeratorsWhy should you practice living with an illness as dreadful as Alzheimer’s? Because, according to NIH statistics, one-in-ten people over 65 will develop this most common form of dementia, and by 85-years-of-age, one-third of us will be struck.
Squishy Memories: Part II-Why Does the Mind Change the Past? Stan Goldberg March 25, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day In Part I of this series, I wrote our mind’s creation of memories is unreliable since it has a hidden agenda. In Part II I’ll offer reasons why...
Squishy Memories: Part I-The Big Con Stan Goldberg March 23, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day I was asked if I thought individuals can block memories of traumatic events, and if not, could certain triggers cause these events to resurface....
Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part II) Why Truth is Relative Stan Goldberg January 28, 2015 Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day 1 Comment In Part I of Family Conflict I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. There is an amazing...
When You Really Screw Up Stan Goldberg November 19, 2014 Alzheimer’s/dementia, Thoughts of the Day 06/27/14 Last night I went to an intimate dinner-concert to hear my favorite shakuhachi player. When I sat next to a couple I bubbled over with...
Why “Truth” is Always Relative: A Lesson on Understanding Stan Goldberg November 28, 2012 Aging, Grieving and Recovery, Life 16 Comments We move in a world created by our history and often pretend the past and present aren’t connected. A partner becomes annoyed at what we do or say,...
Of Course You Remember Stan Goldberg July 7, 2011 Alzheimer’s/dementia, Poems 27 Comments Of course you remember she says. It was your sixtieth, and we came from across the country to express our love. I don’t remember, I say. But...
Memories: A Call to Reconnect Stan Goldberg April 26, 2010 End of Life 2 Comments Did you ever have a memory that rode into your consciousness on the back of a passing odor, object, or random word? Something you desperately tried to forget? But despite your best efforts, it still seeped through your emotional protective wall as if the wall was made of cheesecloth.