Embracing the Journey of Leaving a Lasting Legacy Imagine sitting with your loved ones, sharing stories that sparkle with laughter and glisten with tears. These moments are more than memories; they’re the threads that weave the tapestry of your family’s history. Your legacy is the heartbeat of these stories—the enduring imprint of your life’s journey …
Exploring the Language That Helps Us Navigate Loss Death is an inevitable part of the human experience, yet it’s a topic we often tiptoe around. Instead of facing it head-on, we wrap it in layers of metaphor, humor, and gentle imagery. Have you ever wondered why we say someone has “kicked the bucket” or “gone …
Everyone has a standard list of questions that they should ask their grandparents — Where were you born? How did you meet? What was it like growing up? Where did you live? What was it like without a smart phone or TV? How far did you walk to school and was it really up hill …
Imagine that you have paid thousands of dollars to an insurance company for many years to ensure that your family is cared for after you have passed away, but you neglect to do one thing — tell your family about it or where the policy is located. Or, what if a family member recently passed …
My 8th grade teacher, Mr. Perry, left our class with many lasting thoughts and phrases. His primary goal was to teach us helping verbs and literature. But occasionally we strayed into other topics. As a former priest, he held very strong religious convictions and wasn’t afraid to share them with us (in today’s environment, he …
Did you know that National Donor Sabbath occurs each November? In 2011, friends of ours took their teen-age daughter, Emma, in for blood tests, believing she had mononucleosis. That started what they later referred to as 72 hours of horror, as Emma went into cardiac arrest and suddenly had to be put on life-support. Emma …