Kate Dyer-Seeley  

Pictured with me above (left to right) are fellow Washington State advocates Margaux Gillespie and Eileen Alexander.  Eileen is a congressional junkie, and personally impacted by the disease.  Her cousins have early onset, some developing it in their late thirties.  Margaux works for the Washington State chapter.  She interned in college on the hill, and was an incredible resource.  Attending the national forum, walking the [...]

Kate with Senator Smith, a proponent of funding research. Both senators from Oregon support health care research, one’s a democrat, the other a republican.  My personal politics aside, health care shouldn’t be a partisan issue.  Your voter’s registration card provides no immunity for Alzheimer’s disease, or any other disease for that matter. Historically health care has been a divisive [...]

Kate with Senator Wyden at the Senate’s hearing on Alzheimer’s disease.  Senator Wyden has been an advocate of increasing funding for research.      I was most excited about attending some of the research sessions at the Public Policy Forum.  It was disappointing to learn that federal funding for Alzheimer’s research has flat-lined over the past few years.  In fact funding for [...]

Whew, where to start on my recap of the Public Policy Forum?  I decided to begin with the issue that is foremost in my mind, and that I personally spoke about at the forum.  I think many of my blog readers are already familiar with this piece of my family’s story, but read on because [...]

I’ve been running on pure adrenaline for the past four days.  Tomorrow I’ll start a series of posts about my experience at the forum.  I need a few hours to assimilate the torrent of information I received.  Not to mention a nap, after a whirlwind day on the hill yesterday.  In the meantime here’s a link  to the to the Senate’s Hearing on Alzheimer’s.  I’ll post my [...]

 It’s time for a trip to the library, your favorite bookstore, or both this weekend.  Next week, May 12-18th, is Reading Is Fun Week.  The event, founded by RIF in 1979, began as a way to encourage and promote children to read throughout summer vacation.  My entire summer vacation revolved around reading when I was a child.  In my [...]

Our computers spend hours each day idle.  Researchers at Stanford University have created a novel way to use these idle hours to help them better understand protein folding.  When proteins fold incorrectly the result can be devestating diseases, including Alzheimer’s. You can help.  Download Folding at Home .  It’s free, easy to do, and now instead of an idle computer, your machine [...]

I recently discovered a new way to reduce my reading imprint: Eco-Libris.  A genius of an idea, at Eco-Libris they plant a tree for every book you read in a developing nation.  Since I live within ten minutes of Powell’s Books I feel less guilty about my book purchases since they eventually end up back on the [...]