Personal Narrative

This morning’s lower backache is the price I pay for trying to be a farmer. I am not strong and agile. I don’t know a… Read More »Unexpected Grace

Mom took a fall at her apartment last Sunday. Ended up at the ER, small fracture on left clavicle, she was admitted for observation. She’ll… Read More »Mom in the Time of COVID-19

I understand the fear of death. As a child, I was afraid to sleep. I was terrified that I would die each night. The plaque… Read More »I USED TO BE TERRIFIED OF DYING by Lynda Carré

Abigail Thomas is an author of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and poetry. Her work has appeared in too many publications to mention, but significantly two of… Read More »The Dying Room by Abigail Thomas

As an older mother, I sense that my role has morphed into something like a reverse mortgage. I’ve put in nearly eighteen years of equity… Read More »The Last Time by Kathleen McKitty Harris

Do previously deceased friends and family meet us when we die? My mother was a scientist. She was born in 1926 and grew up in… Read More »Crossword Puzzles

This is what my cousin Jim says over the phone after announcing the obscene-sounding name of his terminal diagnosis—progressive bulbar palsy (PBP)—a form of ALS… Read More »No Passport Needed…

Erica on Being in Hospice Care Erica Chase-Salerno was a journalist, a wife and mother of two, and an indefatigable spirit. Diagnosed with Stage IV… Read More »Is this it, I wonder?