If you are like me you make sure the next book you pick up is worth your time reading it.  I’ve found that searching the best-seller Kindle lists is helpful for finding worthy texts.  That is how I came across Jared Diamond’s, “Guns, Germs and Steel,” a 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner. Diamond is a University…

It has been almost two months since I last posted.  After writing about 100 blogs over a three-year span, I believe I had run out of things to say, and I didn’t want to keep re-writing the same stories and themes.  Frankly, I’m surprised that anyone would want to read this blog . . ….

A friend of mine from college posted on his Facebook page a few thoughts about regrets.  Here they are: “I always hear people say, “I live my life with no regrets” or “I have no regrets in life.” Really?! Not one. I have tons. Practically every conversation I have, I later think, “why did I…

I was reading a book about a man who was the primary caretaker for his father.  His dad had been a robust, hard-working man his whole life, and cancer had reduced his physical body to a bed-bound status, hardly able to feed himself.  Each night, the exhausted son would feed his dad and then massage…

We often receive requests from family members and hospice patients to know how much longer they have to live.  My response is always the same, that only the Giver of life knows when it will be taken away.   Although our hospice patient population is mostly elderly, our census has been peppered with more than the…