Living With an Impostor: A Confluence of Art, Depression and Dementia

Insights into Lawrence W. Lee's 40-year battle with severe depression, his wife's slow descent into dementia, and his life and work as an artist are combined into a cautionary tale that will ring true to anyone over 50. You will laugh. You will cry. You will ask yourself some of the hard questions most people forget to ask while there is still time. The author uses excerpts from personal journals and other writings to weave together the three related stories of art, dementia, and depression into a book that reveals something of the disjointed nature of human experience and points again and again to the role small, seemingly trivial decisions can have in all our lives: how chance can become a most powerful conspirator, leading us down paths un-chosen and changing our lives forever.
As the author attempts to find personal meaning in the course his life has taken, the reader is swept along in their own personal journey, wondering about their own past and future, and about those decisions both grand and small that have brought them to their particular place on their unique road into the future. Some will find solace. Others will find heartbreak. All will come away looking at themselves and their lives differently, for better or for worse.