My Dad was the Ultimate Submarine Parent

Below is an excerpt from my new book, Ten Days with Dad: finding purpose, passion, and peace during the darkest days of Alzheimer’s.

Image owned by Author. Photo of my dad taken in 2020.

It takes about eighteen months before you get to know someone, at least that’s what Laura Schlessinger, more commonly known as Dr. Laura, says on her weekly radio show. My dad was 84 when he died. I lived with him for the first twenty-two years of my life, then…