My Writing

I am not a 12-Step person but there are two 12-Step axioms that I just love. In my 60's, I think I finally get what they mean....

A woman cried in my arms when we finished her advanced care directive. "You have no idea what this means to me. I have been trying to do...

Mommy, before I was alive, was I dead like Daddy?" Out of the mouths of babes, right? This babe was a toddler, named Katie, asking her...

I want to have a sense of completion before I die, assuming I die slowly like 90% of us do. Dr. Ira Byock wrote about this. As we...

I started thinking randomly the other day about what I will miss seeing in my two daughters' lives when I die, whenever that is. I will...