Book Review: What’s Better Than This?
In her debut memoir, author Lorraine Salmon turns tragedy into triumph by writing about it. If this sounds like a simplistic prescriptive for grief, it… Read More »Book Review: What’s Better Than This?
In her debut memoir, author Lorraine Salmon turns tragedy into triumph by writing about it. If this sounds like a simplistic prescriptive for grief, it… Read More »Book Review: What’s Better Than This?
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
written by three friends, each contemplating their mortality. Thank you Mare, Nancy, and Austin standing on the edge peering through scrutinizing eyesbarely recognizing theenormity of… Read More »Three poems…
Imagine your beloved life partner is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness. Treatments fail, and you are unprepared to face the process of their dying.… Read More »A More Compassionate Direction: An Interview with Dr. William Gooch
There are times in life when the highest honor, the greatest love is paid to another by simply bearing witness to his or her… Read More »The Power of Bearing Witness
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?
Book review… A Night on Buddy’s Bench: An End of Life Story is Ira Baumgarten’s sweet tale of grief and dying. Can such a story… Read More »Book Review: A Night on Buddy’s Bench