Love in a Time of Caterpillars: A Memoir of Monarchs and Caregiving

Caring for monarch butterflies helps a wife endure her husband’s dementia, find solutions to daily challenges, and create ways to rekindle tender moments in their marriage.

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Aldous Huxley’s Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science

  by Allene Symons

   Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden side of the celebrated author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Allene Symons had no inkling that Aldous Huxley was once a friend of her father’s until the summer of 2001 when she discovered a box of her dad’s old photographs. Read More

 

 

Praise for Aldous Huxley’s Hands

   “The psychedelic Sixties didn’t begin in the 1960s. That much is certain after reading Aldous Huxley’s Hands ….”
– Ben Fong-Torres, former senior editor, Rolling Stone; columnist,
San Francisco Chronicle

“Allene Symons has written an intriguing combination of an Aldous Huxley biography, a smart daughter’s memoir of her father, and science–ranging from schizophrenia to paranormal consciousness to psychedelics … It’s an absorbing and beguiling read.” –
Lisa See, author of China Dolls, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,
and  On Gold Mountain