Writing A Life Story – Jewish Family Service – Sunday
Writing your Life Story can take many forms. Start with an event - important or not - and begin writing. Don’t edit yourself or worry about how much or little you have to say. Put your pen to paper or...
View Article“How do you turn pain into its own memorial”
These are the words of Mark Strand (1934-2014) as told to me by Ed Hirsch in his essay “Poetry Responds to Suffering.” (Find it in Poet’s Choice by Edward Hirsch, 2006, pp. 263-265) Hirsch writes: “The...
View ArticleBook Review: Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer’s
Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer’s . Esther Altshul Helfgott (Yakima, WA: Cave Moon Press, 2014) 82 pages Reviewed by NESSA McCASEY, PTP, CPT, Mentor, International Academy for Poetry Therapy...
View ArticleMemory Loss, Max Roach & Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku
While looking around for books on haiku and politics, I found Sonia Sanchez’s morning haiku; not only did I find the politics I was looking for, I found within poems dedicated to a host of Black...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s Disease Research Summit, 2015
from the National Institute on Aging Monday, February 9, 2015 to Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Event Location: NIH Plan now to attend the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit 2015: Path to Treatment and...
View ArticleLate For Our Wedding
I’m writing here today because I’ve had a breakthrough in my grieving process. In June, Abe will be gone five years and yet he’s still with me every day, whether I want him here or not. I call on him...
View Article“The MemoryCare Plays” Come to Taproot Theatre
Thanks to Taproot Theatre , Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Association/Greenwood Senior Center and Full Life Care, The MemoryCarePlays are coming to Seattle, May 8th and May 9th at 7:30 pm. This is a big...
View ArticleAbe’s Birthday, Pesha’s Death & the Longest Day
It’s 3 PM and I’m only now realizing, as I sit down to write this blog for the Alzheimer’s Association’s Longest Day event, that today is Abe’s birthday. How could I have forgotten? Tomorrow he will...
View ArticleCave Moon Press, ADHD, & Poems to Help Homeless Vets
Doug Johnson, creator and publisher of Cave Moon Press, published both of my books on Alzheimer’s – Dear Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Diary & Poems (2013) and Listening to Mozart: Poems of...
View ArticleEsther on Poetry of Alzheimers
Esther on Poetry of Alzheimers January 21, 2015 | Sheila Bender and Esther Helfgott Esther Helfgott’s life-long writing habit helped her weather her husband Abe’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and the grief...
View ArticleWrite the Caregiving Experience
Sheltering the Self and Others: Exploring the Caregiver Experience Through Writing This series will examine how language can provide an outlet for self-expression, and it will create an emotional...
View ArticleOn Therapeutic Writing and a Radio Interview
A writer came to see me the other day with a notebook full of her writing (all typed, 12 pt font). She’s been working on what some would call a memoir for over five years.We read the preface together...
View ArticleA Ribbons Review, Tanka Society of America
Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer’s. Esther Altshul Helfgott. Cave Moon Press: Yakima, Wash., 2014, 82 pp. ISBN: 978-0-6159-8013-3. Available at Amazon., $12 US. by Margaret Durnous, Ribbons:...
View ArticleSheltering the Self and Others
Sheltering the Self and Others: Exploring the Caregiver Experience Through Writing In memory of Abe Schweid (1928-2010) Tuesdays, Oct 6-27. 1-3pm. $25 PNA Members/$40 Public This series will examine...
View ArticleEarly Stage Memory Loss & Taproot Theatre
Thanks to Momentia Seattle, there’s a lot going on in Seattle for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of memory loss. Momentia is an umbrella movement under which creative activities take place....
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