Are men and women equal? I know the answer is yes, but then the question for me is: how do I personally represent this equality? The news is full of examples of how women get the short end of the stick. I happen to be a man so I have a big challenge before me. Are there ways I contribute to inequality? How do I treat or interact with other […]
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Stephen Jenkinson | Angel and executioner
This little book is meant for all those who suspect or fear or who have been told for certain that they have a diagnosis that they will not live through, and for all those who love them. It is meant too for all people who woke up one morning feeling older than they used to and couldn’t afford to wonder why, or who got unwanted news about someone they loved […]
Charlotte Sulick | Unkind
We have a joke in my family about sudden death. “She died suddenly.” Doesn’t everyone? You’re alive, and then you aren’t. One moment to the next. It never happens any other way. When my grandmother died it happened that way, too. We went to bed with her alive and we woke up with her dead. “Mimi died.” The light in the hallway turned Mom into a shadow as she swung […]
Kim Brookes | Ways to the end
According to family lore, I will follow my elders into a long life. When I was born, I had three great-grandmothers, each of whom lived into her nineties. My grandmother passed away when she was one hundred years old. Until she fell, when she was ninety eight, my Nana had a clear mind, still drove a bit, and lived alone. Unable to get at-home services in rural Maine, within months, […]
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