Beach ghosts and donanemab
Yesterday evening as sundown approached, I looked out a window on the west side of our house and saw a startling headless reflection looking back enquiringly at me. The optics were easily explained: I...
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Saying goodbye to Lizzie G
I have loved boats all of my life. When I was a small boy, my father and my great-uncle Fred taught me how to row and sail in a small dinghy. I was in awe of...
Back to the San Juan and Gulf Islands
Sailing with my friends Henry and John on a chartered sailboat has been an annual treat since 1999. We missed out in 2020 because of Covid, and in 2021 we could not cross over from...
My photographs in 1978 and 2022
In 1978, I was in the fifth year of the six-year Medical Scientist Training Program leading to MD and PhD degrees at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a rigorous program, but I...
My Father’s “Stuff” – Looking Back on Father’s Day
My father, Zack Gibbs, was 44 when I was born in 1951. He died of cancer 16 years later at age 60. Throughout his life he had been a tinkerer. He liked to build things...
Rolling on the River
The Columbia River originates in the mountains of British Columbia, runs north for a while, then south, then west passing through an 80 mile long, 4000 ft deep gap in the Cascade Mountains called...
Tattoo – The Film
Amazing as it might seem, Viacom recently bought the film rights to my book, A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. Production of a planned 40-minute documentary is already underway....
We need more sensitive cognitive screening tests – could neural processing speed be the answer?
We know that the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease can be found in the brain years before the onset of noticeable cognitive impairment. The beta-amyloid plaques start to appear as much as 20 years before...
Running on a field of dreams
I love baseball. I was never any good at it myself. I have memories of watching in shame as the ball rolled between my legs in left field. Later, when the pitchers started throwing breaking balls,...
The magic of a solar eclipse
On August 21, 2017 I witnessed my first and likely my last solar eclipse. Of course, I had read about the mystical power of totality. I came across it for the first time when I...
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