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...
Creating our Christmas Legacy
With little boys (ages 5 and 7), the holidays can be such a magical time. We’re seeing Santa everywhere we go and making sure he knows exactly what we want. The boys are reading about gingerbread men and talking about reindeer and pondering how Santa manages to read...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/
