When you realize there will never ever be another conversation, every piece you have left becomes precious.
What you choose to preserve now can carry someone’s memory for generations into the future.
Capturing a fading mind.
We knew Alzheimer’s and dementia were taking her memory. She agreed to sit down for a life story interview, which preserved a moving memory of how she was when she was herself.
CBC Radio in London spoke with me a few weeks before she died.
A fading life, saved for the future.
CTV London aired this report just days after my mother died.
“At the time she knew that she was sitting down to ask questions about her life, although there was a moment during it, where she looks through the lights and and go, 'Are you my son?''
Click to watch the CTV News story (offsite link)
Follow the clues to find the treasure.
Most of my career was spent in broadcasting, chasing ideas in search of the best stories to share with my audience. That curiosity has never left me.
Mommy died when he was 3.
My wife’s ovarian cancer was discovered during the birth of our son. When she died in 2016, we had photos but not much more for him to hold on to when his few memories began to fade. I sought to build her life story from the memories of those who knew her.