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 vir...

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 v...

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...

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 s...

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, ...

Every morning for the past eight weeks, I have sent a text message to a woman whose husband passed away. It started as one red heart, whi...

I have been here before. The room looks different, and the faces have changed but the sounds of tears that echo in my head prepare me for...

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 ...

I recently shared a story on my hospice FB page that really opened something up inside me. One of the things I have become very drawn to ...

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, or to use a restroom or check the mirror to make sure I am still somewhat intac...

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

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 fa...

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 lifeti...

I spend a lot of time talking about the beautiful side of death. Working in hospice has allowed me an opportunity to see death in a way t...

When I applied to nursing school, it was with my full intention to become a hospice nurse; I never entertained anything else. I knew with...

One of the things I continue to learn about life through death is that it is not about me. Despite what I may know, sometimes I need to b...

I have said this before… but people have a tendency not to ask me how my day was because they are afraid that I am going to tell them. In...