Summer Reading

Where does one find the time to read?

You will never find the time.

You will always have to make time.

Early Saturday mornings you could find me nestled on my hanging bed

turning page after page to absorb the life of Alice Howland in the book

Still Alice

She was a prominent woman

Harvard professor

Wife and Mother

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in her early fifties

Although the person and the plot of this book was fictional

the story was very real

Every day thousands are diagnosed with Alzheimer's

Alice could be anyone

your friend, your mother, your neighbor, your sister, your wife

your dad, your brother, your grandfather

the disease does not discriminate

which is what brought great emotion while reading.

I cried at the very thought of a precious and prominent woman in our community who is experiencing the very real story of Still Alice.

This book is an insight of finding the new normal

going from ordinary to extraordinary

from the known to the unknown

and end the end

to just

be

you