My Writing

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...

I did therapy on and off for a total of thirty years. I had a very high ACE (adverse childhood events) and it took me a minute. Or two. ...