Category Archives: Mike
Posts about my brother Mike.
Memories of Michael: Mike’s Last Hours (2022)
Memories of Michael: Portrait of My Brother – Transition Complete (2015)
I intended this portrait to express Mike’s other-worldliness. But we are brothers and I had a connection with him, if only in one direction. We share the same oddness – in different ways – just as we do the same genetic makeup. I painted this in 2015 (Final Transition).
Memories of Michael: Mike in Transition, Watercolor (2015)
Mike probably transitioned away from his family during the first few years of his life. I don’t mean that he did this on purpose, although that’s what Mom used to think, very bitterly. Mike was normal looking until he went to Willowbrook. My parents were duly notified when Mike got his front teeth knocked out, […]
Memories of Michael: Young Mike, Watercolor (2015)
Memories of Michael: My Brother as a Boy (~1961)
Memories of Michael: Mike with his Housemates (1992)
I got to know some of Mikes housemates during my visits to his group home.
Memories of Michael: Journal Entry About Mike’s Baby Book (1989)
I am a visual person, so a lot of my memories are triggered by visual images. Journal entries provide another way to access memory, perhaps at a deeper level.
Memories of Michael: The First of Mike (1950)
This is a page from Mike’s baby album. I have it in my book, My Brother Michael. I can only imagine the hopes and dreams of a glorious future that my parents must have had for their new baby.
Memories of Michael: The Last of Mike (2022)
This is a sketch for a future painting. I drew it shortly after Mike died. I got a call the day he died, from one of his caregivers, who told me, “Michael is transitioning.” I was fortunate enough to get to talk to him during his last hours. Mike was nonverbal and never gave me […]
