It’s Dementia Awareness Week here in Australia, and its World Alzheimer’s month in the US.

This is a poignant article about famous children’s author Robert Munsch, now living with Parkinson’s disease and dementia, and reflecting on how this affects his life and his creativity. I am always so moved when people with that lived experience of dementia share their new reality and what it means for them…

Here’s the article, from the New York Times, by Katie Engelhart (Sept. 14, 2025).