A haiku that I’d written about my grandmother (2012): Your hands were a sea, Of such delicate ripples, And then came the storm.
View ArticleWhen Are You Done Grieving
There is ample information today on the process of grieving. All you have to do is pick up any book
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He Still Gets a Birthday Cake
This Monday was my son Alex’s 12th birthday. Our regular tradition is to release helium balloons with little notes stapled to them and send them off to heaven, after we hold hands and quietly sing...
View ArticleElderly Animals: Photographs by Isa Leshko from Walley Films on Vimeo. Would like to share this touching film, covering Isa Leshko’s photography series, “Elderly Animals”…I tear up every time.
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Not a Bad Year
Mark and I squeezed in a bit of Christmas shopping last night ahead of our nightly visit to his dad in hospice. As we drove, I was feeling a bit reluctant. We had been to see Bob the night before and...
View ArticleHere's to no more crazy people controlling me!
Dear Alex, To my former best friend. For the longest time losing our friendship was the hardest thing I had ever been through. My observation of our fall is that I being a great friend tried to help...
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Cemetery with one MILLION mummies unearthed in Egypt
Cemetery with one MILLION mummies unearthed in Egypt | Daily Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk By Richard Gray for MailOnline 17 December 2014 A cemetery containing more than a million mummified...
View ArticleIt's that time of year #ROW80
It’s that time of year when things all get smashed together in a short period of time. Happy t
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Assisted suicide: Canadian Medical Association quietly preparing for 'all...
The nation’s largest doctors’ group is quietly preparing for possible changes in federal laws governing physician-assisted death, as support among its own members for medical aid in dying grows. The...
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Illuminating Memories
The memories of our loved ones never die. It is, particularly, at the end of year when those memories are illuminated. The holiday memories are amplified: the Thanksgiving meals, the mishaps that might...
View ArticleFive Ways Telehealth will Change Medicine
When discussing telehealth, one first needs to refer to definitions. The Health Resources Services Administration defines telehealth as “The use of electronic information and telecommunications...
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"Beyond the Veil: Our Journey Home" by Diane Goble - to be released 1/1/15
Beyond the Veil: Our Journey Home by Diane Goble Release Date: January 1, 2015 … a way for individuals to consciously prepare for what’s to come, and to better understand the life in their death, and...
View ArticleEasy is a Lonely Road
~~~ If we never fell in love, we wouldn’t know the pain of separation. If we never had children, we
View ArticleFinding Peace
For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. (Ja
View ArticleEndings and beginnings
Two friends have died recently. One death was unexpected, one not. People die every day, every hour, but when someone we know personally dies, it is different. These two people could not have been more...
View ArticleWhispers of the Night.
Another sleepless night, I feel looming in sight. I lie in bed, I open my eyes. And, it’s only darkness I can see. And, so here I lie blinded, I simply hear, I listen. As the night gently whispers,...
View ArticleSleep in Heavenly Peace
Christmas is upon us. And we’ll be missing my father-in-law as we celebrate this year. On Sunday, the entire family was called to hospice to say goodbye to Bob. He was struggling and earlier had...
View ArticleGRANDMA
My Grandma is one of the strongest, kindest, most happy people I know. It’s funny, I don
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