Understanding my Dad through poetry
A cartoon created as part of a book given by Dad's colleagues at Canadian Armed Forces Staff College in 1957 Communication has become very difficult for my Dad: bad hearing, slowed comprehension,...
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The title of this post is provocative, but so is this use of the politicized phrase “death panel” by Joe Klein in his June 11 Time feature article, “How to Die”: “My parents died serenely, with...
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In the initial weeks after my mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1999, I wanted to comfort her as she drifted in and out of lucidity. I remember sitting quietly by her bedside at the hospital,...
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