Love in the air
Love was in the air this Valentine’s Day, and in the days before and after. Let me tell you the ways.
Most recent articles by Gary Tetz
Tempets in a typo
Sometimes a writer has to take a principled stand no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. That’s why today, without fear of reprisal, I want to talk about typos.
A shallow obsession
A smartphone app in development purports to use speech analysis to diagnose dementia. That’s fantastic news, but it ignores one of my fundamental beliefs: that smartphone use is dementia, on a global scale. The irony is that our phone addiction is making us crazy as a civilization and species, but in our demented state, we…
An insomniac’s medicine cabinet
Wakeful, wandering, grumpy and doomed. These precious words describe our faithful, bleary-eyed columnist most nights.
This year, stop wandering about!
If you didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, you better be prepared to explain why.
Go venti or go home
Any chance to write about coffee, I should. That’s perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned over all my years writing for McKnight’s. Based on audience response, it’s one of the topics long-term care folks care quite passionately about.
Seniors — more than shadows of former glories
It would be one of those sympathy shows, I figured, the kind where you go home acknowledging the performer more as a historical artifact than as a still-vigorous artist. “How good could she really be at this age?” I even caught myself wondering.
Things I Think: The lessons of autumn
Autumn is a time of change. That probably seems trite and obvious, and certainly it’s a trait shared by all the seasons, at least where I live in the Pacific Northwest. But the transitions of fall always feel most jarring.
Escape from Emojiland
The growing use of a lazy trend in text communications makes me weep for the future of real compassion and empathy.
Things I Think: Opera’s resonance
How can listening to opera possibly improve the cognitive function of dementia patients? Notice I didn’t ask whether. According to McKnight’s, Chinese researchers are proving the point, and who am I to argue? You’ll notice that opera characters who express strong opinions generally die. I love opera, so getting to listen to it all the…
