April Fools’ Day and May 1st will always be embedded in my head and heart as the two days when the earth shifted beneath my feet. My mom unexpectedly had a stroke on April 1…

The team working on The Conversation Project sometimes notes that it would be more appropriate to call our initiative “The Conversations (emphasis on the plural) Project” rather than The Conversation (singular) Project. After all, people…

Sometimes the most important end-of-life conversations don’t happen out loud. That was one of the revelations I had after leading a Conversation Starter Kit workshop at a church in a suburb west of Boston last…

Movie Review: The Nurse With the Purple Hair Sean Cunningham is a movie producer and director best known for the original Friday the 13th. In his horror movies, Cunningham plays on people’s fear of death….

  While most of Washington roiled with debate over the health care bill in the House of Representatives, an event with a starkly different tone took place on Capitol Hill. Last week, stakeholders of all…

“If I ever end up like that, just let me go,” my dad declared. “I don’t want anything to do with a feeding tube or any of that nonsense.” My father’s statement about his grandmother…