Monthly Archives: June 2011

0savesSave Through some great contacts we were able to jump the line and look at the Wii U up close and personal today at E3. Wow.  What A dud! Honestly, I love (or at least once “loved”) the Wii.   … Continue reading →

I visited my dad last Sunday. He’s 85 years old, and he has onset dementia, so he can’t express himself clearly, nor can he come-up with many nouns, so he can’t describe anything that he wants or needs without a ton of trouble. It is very difficult to have a conversation with him, but every Sunday I still go into his room, pry his eyes away from the TV, and try anyway.

That day I decided to point to the photos around the room and ask him if he knew who was in them. The first photo was from about 1983. It’s of my dad, sitting on a soccer ball, describing something to my sister, as my brother and I play in a game in the background. I asked him who the guy talking was, and he could not tell me.

“It’s you dad”, I told him.

“Yeah, yeah, him,” he replied.

“Do you know who those guys are in the background?” I asked him

“Oh yeah, the were over here and now they are over there,” he replied.

I interpreted this to mean that he knew it was my brother and I and that we had moved out and made our own way in the world.

Encouraged, next I pointed to a photo of his mom taken in the 1950′s.

“Who’s that?” I asked

“Oh, yeah, you know that one was in the other place, and I was not in that one”, he told me.

I interpreted this to mean that he knew it was his mom, and he still remembered that she had sent him to co-op boarding school for his entire childhood when he was 4 years old in 1929.

Finally, I pointed to a photo of his father, that was right next to his mother. The photo was from the 1930′s, and his father looked very serious.

Without missing a beat my dad, stood-up from his bed, and an scowl crossed his face.

“He was the one who went blam…”

He made a fist and swung it slightly.
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