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Jun 22, 2024 | montco.today | Wendi Pope Rank

It was a bright, balmy morning when I pulled into the Temple of Doom’s parking lot. Willie had an appointment.  Willie’s primary care provider requested I accompany Willie on her visits with him since her unfortunate diagnosis. Which sounds easy enough. But for two things. One, Willie’s doctor is a 40-minute drive from the Temple of Doom.  I could exceed my word count explaining why Willie sees a doctor the distance of four KYW Traffic and Transit on the Twos.

Jun 15, 2024 | delco.today | Wendi Pope Rank

The taxes still are not filed. To recap, last year I discovered Willie hadn’t filed a tax return since 2018. Worse, it’s not like Willie carefully filed her tax documents for easy retrieval. I mean, don’t be ridiculous, Cousin Larry. The tax documents were scattered throughout Willie’s apartment like clues in an escape room. But many were missing. If you’ve read all four of my columns about the taxes, you know I have spent hours trying to recoup those tax documents.  To very little avail.

Jun 8, 2024 | delco.today | Wendi Pope Rank

You might think Willie’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis could lead to not a lot of funny in this space. But to quote every cartoon ever, au contraire mon frère. It is the funny that will save us. Just look at, for example, the guardianship. My siblings and I decided to pursue guardianship of Willie. My brother would be Willie’s guardian, with loving support from me and my sister.

Jun 1, 2024 | delco.today | Wendi Pope Rank

How, exactly, was my relationship with Indy defined by mercury? It starts with Discover magazine. I was on leave from work, out having breakfast with Indy, when Indy slid an issue of Discover across the table to me. In its back pages, the National Institutes of Health advertised grant money for research on elemental mercury.  “You’re not working,” Indy said. “You should apply for the grant.” And he was right. I wasn’t working.  Probably because I’d been a mother for just under eight weeks.

May 25, 2024 | delco.today | Wendi Pope Rank

So, the stocks. Let’s start with Indy’s Maryland property, which took me two years to sell.  Just as I had a buyer, Indy went to Marion’s bar in Nepal. Now, I knew the property was only in Indy’s name. Of course I did. Willie and I reviewed Indy and Willie’s finances years ago. So I knew they never got around to putting the property in both of their names.  When I was 29 years old, I registered my own birth certificate with the state because Indy and Willie never got around to doing that, either.