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In 2005, my mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's when she was 54 and I was 22. This SubStack is a collection of my writings through her illness and after her subsequent death in April 2023.
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Is There a Ghost In My House?
Doing renovations to your childhood home means becoming suddenly and unexpectedly sentimental over the strangest things, like the contact paper lining the kitchen cabinets and drawers that are probably older than I am.
As I sit here, peeling, cleaning, reminiscing, I find the song by @bandofhorses, "Is There A Ghost" playing in my head. But I already know the answer. Ghosts of past lives and people not yet dead are here with me every day.