About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that…
Explaining why the couple went to Switzerland when some states have right-to-die laws concerning physician-assisted death, Bloom writes, “Choosing to…
What’s surprising is that I feel such emptiness when I’ve long since been used to being emotionally distant from either…
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it…
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It’s meant to combine a physical transformation of organizing one’s home and possessions while at the same time allowing an…
When I look at these photos now, I see time-capsule documentation of beginnings — the beginning of a family, a…
I’ve now lived alone in my family home for nearly five years, and the home was built for a nuclear…
Had my mother been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a specific brain disease that results in dementia, she would have accessed a…
When I first looked at my mother’s two-car garage, stuffed so full you could lose a garbage bin in it,…