by Beth Schulz (with art by Freeman Payne)<\/strong> February:\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n Would you like to go to the store with me, Dad? I have a few groceries I need.<\/p>\n Sure! I like going grocery shopping with you.<\/p>\n \u2028I like going grocery shopping with you too, Dad.\u2028 I love you, Dad.<\/p>\n I love you too, Daughter.<\/p>\n August:\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s such a warm day today, Dad. Would you like an ice cream sundae?<\/p>\n \u2028I like sundaes.<\/p>\n What kind would you like?<\/p>\n I would like a, a, what\u2019s the word? It\u2019s brown, I think. And it\u2019s a little warm.<\/p>\n Would you like a hot fudge sundae, Dad?<\/p>\n Ya, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go get one. \u2028I love you, Dad.<\/p>\n \u2028I love you too.<\/p>\n March:\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n Tomorrow is church, Dad. We\u2019ll leave at eight o\u2019clock, okay?<\/p>\n Okay. Eight o\u2019clock.\u2028 What time are we leaving?<\/p>\n We\u2019ll leave at eight o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n Eight o\u2019clock.\u2028 Is that in the morning?<\/p>\n Yes, we\u2019ll leave at eight o\u2019clock in the morning.\u2028 I love you, Dad.<\/p>\n I love you.<\/p>\n October:\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n The autumn leaves are so beautiful. Isn\u2019t this a lovely time to be walking in the park, Dad?<\/p>\n Where am I? I don\u2019t know where I am! Where am I?<\/p>\n You\u2019re in the park, Dad. It\u2019s okay. You and I are taking a short walk in the park.\u2028 I love you, Dad.<\/p>\n You too.<\/p>\n July:\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a bright, sunny day, today. How about you and I go for a drive in the country, Dad?<\/p>\n A drive? With you?<\/p>\n Yes. Would you like to go for a drive?<\/p>\n Who are you?<\/p>\n \u2028I love you, Dad.\u2028 Dad?<\/p>\n I love you, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Conversation with Dementia by Beth Schulz (with art by Freeman Payne) Writers Artists Night 2021 February:\u2028 Would you like to go to the store with me, Dad? I have a few groceries I need. Sure! I like going grocery shopping with you. \u2028I like going grocery shopping with you too, Dad.\u2028 I love you,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593],"tags":[1640,1641,1642,1639,420],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writers-artists-night-2021","tag-beth-schulz","tag-conversation","tag-dad","tag-dementia","tag-freeman-payne","category-1593","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9897,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions\/9897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWriters Artists Night 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n