Audiobook now available for THE LONG HELLO! With Audible.com, narrated by yours truly, and actor extraordinaire JILL EIKENBERRY ( of LA Law fame, and many other stage productions and film).
Recorded in NYC at Outloud Audio, with fab engineer Rodrigo.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY – FEATURES “THE LONG HELLO.”
THRILLED to be featured in the alum newsletter for The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. When I was there, our beloved Dean D.A. HENDERSON, had headed up the WHO program that eradicated smallpox from the world. Imagine that . . .
http://www.jhsph.edu/alumni/alumni-profiles/cathie-borrie.html
IN PRAISE OF ALL MOTHERS
In praise of all mothers. There are many people who have, or had, mother’s LIVING with dementia. Not SUFFERERS of dementia (we don’t use that word with cancer, or MS, or Parkinson’s or head injuries, etc. etc. so let’s STOP using it for dementia), and this is my little prose poem for my mother. Maybe it will resonate?
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Mother’s Day
There are no cards for mothers with dementia. No cards for you, Mother, yet somehow the day arrives following weeks of anticipation: flowers, gifts, family get-togethers. But stigma creates silence and silence holds sadness.
So I hold you.
The words now used by others to define you: demented, sufferer, an empty shell, a long goodbye, the endless forgetting. Un-visitable.
“I can’t come by anymore. She doesn’t know who I am and besides, she’s only 10% of who she was.”
No! She’s 100% of who she is becoming.
Words that do not define you, as you and I sing the old songs, “Moon River”, “Goodnight Irene”, “The Sunny Side of the Street” (you, in perfect pitch), or when your fingers dance across imaginary keys, miming melodies – Bach’s Schafe können sicher weiden.
“La, la la la, la la la, la la la . . .”
Unfitting words for all the hours of silence, as you stroke my forehead, pulling fine strands of my hair with gentle staccato tugs.
Are you only worth celebrating, Mother, if you never change or lose your memories, if you never forget who I am? Or, as I learned at your side, the heart of you endures through music and touch and song, your Buddhist-like, moment-living essence, a model for us all.
Greeting cards: welcome, acknowledge, receive, meet. Mother, no one is as interesting to me as you, with Alzheimer’s. Where is the card for that?
Cathie Borrie
Author, The Long Hello
eCareDiary Radio Show Interview
It was wonderful to talk with interviewer Linda Burhans on eCareDiary. Here is the 15 minute conversation!
MANHATTAN BOOK REVIEW and SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW ask: What Woman Writer Inspired You To Write?
VERY pleased to have MANHATTAN BOOK REVIEW and SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW ask me, along with 3 other authors, “Which woman writer inspired you to become a writer.”
Guess who I picked? http://bit.ly/1RciMQ4
USA Release Date: April 19, available for pre-orders now:
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