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JC’s Article in Fall Issue of Healthwise Ottawa in Time for World Alzheimer’s Day, September 21, 2011

A three-page feature on “What My Grandma Means to Say” appears in the fall issue of Healthwise Ottawa, “Your local guide to improved health and well-being.” The story traces how “What My Grandma Means to Say” developed from a play into a storybook for children and families in which someone is living with Alzheimer’s disease […]
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she tells him, she shows him what.

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What she needs from him:

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shroud him, steal him from her.

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tatting, a pattern of holes,

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Memories like lace:

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One theft begets another.

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She should have been warned.

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many words, some of the tune.

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till he no longer recalls

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as an air to hum

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that theft, remembered only

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For ten years, plus two,

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stole for them an anthem: “we.”

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overrode their histories,

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with rhythmic refrain,

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September 12:High Tea for health care professionals and educators in Ottawa about “What My Grandma Means to Say”

On Monday, September 12 from 4:00-5:30 p.m., the Glebe Centre hosted a sumptuous High Tea to introduce area educators and health care professionals to “What My Grandma Means to Say,” the storybook and the play for children and families about Alzheimer’s disease.  Those attending the event had the opportunity to see first hand how “What […]
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Seduction, its melody

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They met in a song.

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cloaked her, blindfolded her eyes.

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Confidence, experience

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How not to be caught?

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one theft begets another.

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She should have been warned:

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disguise the clothes of a storm.

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that warp the weaver’s pattern,

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A sash of weathers

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in the same yardage of sky.

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Lightning, a rainbow

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Did they fall if no one saw?

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