We've been through different phases of this COVID thing. We've been through surprise; then buckling down to see this thing through...

I know hospice is misunderstood. I encounter this misunderstanding routinely. Hospice is misunderstood because dying is misunderstood. If...

There is talk in the news about a "second wave" of COVID-19. I have to ask myself, "What second wave?" We're still not off the first....

In these contentious times where man is pitting himself against his brother in incessant, confrontational, violent ways, I think of one...

I was driven to palliative care by wanting to give peace to the dying. I particularly wanted to give comfort around a process which was...

We all want certainty: COVID-19 will officially end on this date. We will have a vaccine by this date. We will no longer have pandemics...

Recently I was told that ALS patients didn't have pain. It was particularly tough to hear this because it came from a family member of an...

We were living full throttle before. For years. We all sensed we were, although we may or may not have wanted to admit it. Our lives were...

In life, in everything you do, you either care or you don't. This may seem like an inconsequential matter but it is not. It is the basis...

It's not easy to get COVID-19 testing right now. An individual I know tried to go to the hospital for suspect symptoms. He already had...

We've gotten used to being able to move on quickly. With the beginning of this pandemic, we had the mindset that it would take a few...

There is an unspoken difficulty with self-isolation. As much as we'd like to pretend that it is easy to do, it is extremely difficult to...

These are difficult times. We are in the midst of a pandemic which is causing us to halt society through panic about spread. And while...

I was told a story today about a little boy in class who coughed and sneezed, and never covered his mouth or washed his hands. When the...

Honesty is a tricky subject. We'd all like to think we're unfailingly honest in our communication but in actuality we're only...

Sudden Death is painful. Whenever we encounter death unexpectedly in a loved one before we have time to prepare ourselves mentally in...

I am a fan of many things, two of which are mythology and astronomy. I was recently reading about Chiron, the centaur and Wounded Healer,...

I went running the other day and thought of mindfulness. My thinking about mindfulness wasn't a good thing. It came about because of the...

I'm victim to wanting to speak my mind. What comes into my mind, I'd like to say. But with this, I've always recognized that once my...

Everyone knows you pay a steep price for death. At least figuratively. For all of us, on some level, the idea of dying comes at great...