Awkward, Hysterically Funny, Surprisingly Touching.

Venturing out in public with my mom, who has severe dementia.

If you follow me on Instagram, you will occasionally see selfies of me, my mom, and often my sister Katrina, with the caption, “Mom time!”

Those two words mean a lot more than you’d think.

That I can photograph my mother at all is a function of dementia so advanced that she has forgotten she hates to be photographed, so she no longer makes ugly faces at t…