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| The Start line-laid back runners! |
Enjoyed going back to my roots this weekend as I traveled to Fayetteville for the Hogeye Half Marathon. Have not been on the University of Arkansas campus in ages. The downtown/Dixon Street area is thriving and the lovely old homes on the top of the hills are looking great. I even found, while running around trying to find the race route, my mentor and friend (she was 70, I was 20 at the time) Elizabeth Richardson’s home. She single-handedly started a movement in Northwest Arkansas to treat the developmentally disabled with dignity and respect during a time when many were labeled “trainable.”
During the weekend I spent time with my mother, age 94, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s. This damned disease is an irreversible, p
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| Mom! |
rogressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. My mother is a strong, smart, savvy, self-sufficient woman and it breaks my heart to see her in her present state. Thinking, remembering, reasoning have almost disappeared. Our conversations are repetitions of the simplest nature. So, I ran this race in support of the Alzheimer’s Association and the research, eldercare, and family support they provide.
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