Community leaders/groups often wonder what the best tools are for starting advance care planning conversations. Which one of the many available should be encouraged? We feel that when it comes to resources to help initiate…

  As my daughter was dying, she said, “Mom, I don’t really want to think about what it will be like to actually die. I would rather imagine myself dancing on the beach – with…

When you hear the words heart attack and open heart surgery at the age of 33 you don’t just come face-to-face with your mortality, you collide with it in an explosive and unceremonious way. Your…

It was a Saturday morning like many before it. Up before the sun with my boys to make cut-up pancakes with maple syrup. A morning movie for them; coffee and some cleaning for me. Little…

I’m a long-hauler. That means that I had COVID in January and three months later, I still feel lousy. Malaise overwhelms me. My brain says, “yes you can do it!” A few hours later my…

A thick blanket of old smoke hangs over everything, almost like its own entity in this house.  Yet it’s just me, on my hands and knees wedged between the wall and the bed, trying to…