Celebration of My Father’s Life Leads to a Moratorium on My Writing

And a renewed respect for the grief process

Me with my dad and mom during their visit in 2014 (Photo provided by author)

My father passed away at the beginning of March, two months ago, after a painfully slow deterioration caused by Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. We lost more and more of him with each passing year, month, week, day, minute, until the second he was gone.