: About Me

Researching and writing competently about almost any field - and then explaining it to non-experts - is what I do.

Undergraduate studies and graduate research have taught me how to learn. They have led to degrees in, and exposure to, health care, business, the humanities, literature, languages, and the social sciences. Combining those with years of computer, Internet, and electronics experience has made me into a specialized generalist.

Traveling widely, including studying, living, and working abroad, has fostered a certain understanding of cultures, customs, perspectives, and languages - and respect for them. That, in turn, has helped illuminate a variety of subjects, ordinary and exotic, in ways that freshen writing.

Result: Formal, interdisciplinary academic training, tempered by experience around the real world, has expanded my world view rather than narrowed it.

Helium gives me a venue for applying this mix of skills and experience to writing that informs, stimulates, and (on occasion) entertains.

My passion is ...

comprehension, clarity and charity.

I know too much about ...

plutocracy, psychology, persiflage, propaganda, publication.

My parents always told me ...

you can do it.

My favorite memory ...

keeps getting upstaged.

Why I write ...

it's hard-wired.

Parenting & Pregnancy > Grandparenting Should a child visit a grandparent with Alzheimer's?

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We don't usually ask ourselves whether our children should visit grandparents who have disabilities that accompany old age. They are, after all, family, and it is often a great comfort to them in their last days to be accepted as they are. Why, then, is it so common for us to wonder about having children visit grandparents with Alzheimer's Disease (AD)? In just about all cases, seeing grandchildren boosts the morale of grandparents considerably - no mean feat when they may be worried about their health or uncomfortable in their surroundings. What motivates our concern? Is it the well-being...

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