Dementia update aka bloggish sympathy thread.→[More:]So my dad, who has been on non-profit boards for about forty years, has worked with them as an executive director, and has been on this particular board going back some 20 years, got flummoxed because an attorney brought up Robert's Rules of Order.

He hadn't heard of it (he thought). My mom and I spent the day explaining (via phone and e-mail) who Robert was, how the Rules of Order came about, why they were important, and the key point being that they should know what rules of order were adopted at incorporation and have copies of same available (because there are different editions, etc.)

Also, he looked up robert's rules of order on Google, saw that it had 2,882,000 results, and said he didn't have time to read all that.

And he asked if that was really 2 million and not just 2 thousand.

My mom and I don't want to have to deal with this; they still have three teenaged learning-disabled kids in the house, only one of whom is going to be ready to move out on his own anytime soon. She doesn't need to have four people to take care of.