Understanding illness
Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
What actually happens in the brain — and what a diagnosis does and does not mean, day to day.
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Reading to help you understand
Clear, compassionate writing on the brain, illness, caregiving, and hope — reviewed for accuracy, written to be understood.
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For caregivers
A Guide for Caregivers
Where to begin, how to cope, and how to care for yourself while caring for someone else.
For caregivers
I Give You My Time
A white flower fading in a shaft of sunlight, and a reflection on the most precious gift one person can give another.
Brain health
Brain Health and Aging
Evidence-based habits that support a healthy mind across the whole of a lifetime.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience Made Simple
The big ideas of how the brain works, explained without jargon or intimidation.
Neuroscience
A Beam of Light Into the Depths of Memory
What the 2026 Nobel Prize Can Teach Us About Alzheimer's Disease
Hope
Stories of Hope
Real people, real journeys — the resilience and grace that live alongside illness.
Hope
Mom, Are You Cold? Mom, Don't Be Afraid
A daughter, half a world away, on the night her mother died in her sleep — and the quiet warmth that outlasted the cold.
Hope
Flowers for the Fifth Seventh Day
Five weeks after losing her mother, a daughter marks the fifth "seventh day" with flowers in every color — and finds her, for now, only in dreams.
Hope
I Dreamed of Mom
A tender dream gives a grieving daughter what real life never let her do — lift her mother into her arms, just as her mother once carried her.
Hope
Mom, Today Is a Day I Miss You
On her mother's birthday, a daughter writes a letter filled with mooncakes, sweaters, and everything she wishes she could still hand her in person.
Hope
Happy Mother's Day, Mom
A Mother's Day dream about breakfast sends a daughter to the kitchen, determined to make for her mother what she couldn't quite remember giving her.
Hope
The Warmth of Mom's Hand in My Palm
In a dream that felt unmistakably real, a daughter's mother explains why she was ready to go — and leaves her warmth behind in an empty hand.
Hope
In My Dream, Mom Took Me to Work
A childhood memory resurfaces in a dream — and a daughter wakes in tears, wishing she could carry her mother the way she was once carried.
Hope
Mom Is on the Other Side of the Sea
Three women who each lost their mothers during the pandemic take a healing trip to the California coast — and send their love out across the water.
Healing
Art, Nature, and Healing
How beauty, stillness, and the natural world quietly support the mind's recovery.
Healing
A Bachelor, Three Beauties, and a Song from Long Ago
A photograph of giant sequoias in Yosemite, a song forgotten for years, and the surprising ways memory finds its way back.