series: Love, Resilience, and Renewal

I felt angst again this morning, that little five letter word Noah Webster described as “a gloomy, often neurotic feeling of generalized anxiety and depression. ”It’s sometimes prompted by visiting my spouse who is in hospice care with severe Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer. I began experiencing angst...

Others by their example teach us how to be our very best. Unsolicited acts of kindness by them prove there are many wonderful people in the natural world. Their good deeds...

In how many books can you remember the opening sentence? I vividly remember only two. One is Genesis 1:1 in the Holy Bible that says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The other is in a small book of big ideas...

“What’s Alzheimer’s disease like?” you may ask. For those suffering from it and their care providers, it is a question frequently answered with terms such as daunting, devastating, debilitating and depressing. In truth...

There are times in life that are painful. At the top of the list is the passing of loved ones. Grief at such times is so powerful it reveals...

Becoming my soulmate’s caregiver during her long illness with Alzheimer’s disease taught me lessons; heretofore, unknown. In this too, she made me a better person. All things considered, sharing almost fifty-six years before her passing...