I open the FaceTime app, make sure my house and my kid are presentable (if you are Latino, you know), and press call. My father lives in Colombia, in a small town near Medellín, about…

I grew up hearing my grandmother say that she was afraid of dying. As she would put it, “If death were rest, I would rather live tired.” My grandmother was always a spirited person, with…

  Ann Allen, Heal Your Grief- Heal Your Life, and The Conversation Project’s Patty Webster teamed up this month to discuss the importance of having conversations about end-of-life care and wishes, especially in the context…

I’m not much of a crier. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve cried in the past five years — through a global pandemic, two harrowing presidential election cycles, and the…