My Mother, My Guiding Light
My mother is Dorothy Leland Follansbee, quite an unusual and striking woman. She was a dichotomy of high caliber poise and graciousness on the one side and controlling, driving demeanor on the other, an endearing goddess, a driving dynamo. Growing up as her daughter...
Born with a baseball in hand: The Gertude Hern Story
Gertrude “Gert” Hern, 94, began playing baseball when she was 6 years old and likes to say she was born with a baseball in her hand. Her uncle, who was an avid baseball player, took her to the ball park with him as she was growing up and she remembers the day he...
Rudy the Therapy Dog
Rudy, an Italian Greyhound, worked with me for five years. He was a former puppy mill dog with a gift for comforting people. One of my most distinctive memories about Rudy is the time he helped me comfort a child in distress. As a social worker, I had to tell a...
It all started after I proposed to my wife
It all started after I proposed to my wife. I spent about a month planning my proposal and at the time I thought all the planning and details I put into my proposal was a lot. Little did I know that the real work comes afterwards with that my proposal leads to… a...
First Day of Summer
My dad, who dropped me off and picked me up from school every day until I could drive, was amazing at helping my sister and me make the most out of the good things in life. One particular idea he had created one of my fondest memories of summer. On the very first day...Did you know?
A study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine suggests that engaging in legacy activities like scrapbooking and story sharing can increase family communication and reduce stress for caregivers to chronically ill individuals. Caregivers reported less stress and patients reported decreased breathing difficulty and increased religious meaning.
Read more here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664509/
