Time

            Last night, commenting on an article in the February 7, 2011, issue of Time Magazine, Mom said, “Ronald Reagan must have died recently.”

            “He’s been dead a long time.  I think his son recently wrote a book about him.”

            “No,” she countered me, “It’s his daughter.”

            “Oh,” I said, quite sure I was right and she was wrong.

And then she asked me a question:

            “Did you know that near the end of his life, Ronald Reagan didn’t remember he had been President?”  With a sad look on her face, she continued:  “It just goes to show you what Alzheimer’s can do to a person.”

            I had no reply for that.