Many years ago, I worked in a hospice house; there were ten beds, which were almost always occupied. Some days, there was a patient...

I have been doing some serious reflecting. I feel a little like a seesaw in that some days I am up... and some days I am down. I know...

I cry a lot lately. I always have but the tears I have been letting loose more recently are due to the myriad of emotions this virus has...

As a hospice nurse, part of the comfort I provide for both patients and their families, is a long lingering hug that says, “I got you, I...

For the first time, at least for as long as I have been alive, the entire world is going through the same thing simultaneously. This...

For the past eight days I have been quarantined at home due to having multiple symptoms that fall in line with the virus. It has been a...

Each visit I had with Henry, except for only once because it was raining, was outside on the porch swing that hung from an old oak tree...

I visited with a patient the other day while at the same time our world was in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis. Before heading in I...

I consider it a privilege when we are asked to care for someone at the end of their life; to have them trust us to come into their home,...

This morning I sent a text message to a woman whose husband passed away. The message was one red heart, no words, just the reminder that...

A blog I wrote after witnessing a man take the Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) medications with his family gathered around him. I had spent...

This job is tough. Today was one of those days when I completely understand what people mean when they say, “I don’t know how you can do...

One of the things I have become very drawn to are the visions that patient’s see as they near the end of their life. I have heard stories...

Someone recently asked me why we call it a “good death”. She is the daughter of a man who was nearing the end of his life and someone had...

I can’t even count how many days I have forgotten to eat, use a restroom or check the mirror to make sure I am still somewhat intact....

I have always been attracted to hummingbirds and dragonflies. Someone once told me that if you see a hummingbird soon after someone has...

A few days ago I was at a facility seeing a patient. I got off the elevator heading toward the memory care unit and noticed a familiar...

The only real certainty about death is that we are all going to die. We are certain of that. But how and when we die is a question no one...

In one week I could sit with ten different people who are about to or will have lost someone they love. I am witness to the dying process...

By the time someone comes to us, they have lived their entire lives; we come in at the very end and only get a snapshot. We hear a...