Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes.
It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, it [...]

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Another great article about the importance of broaching difficult conversations around end-of-life wishes appears in the Indianapolis Star this week.

The piece offers advice on how to have these conversations (including using the five questions  offered on Engage With Grace) in a way that’s non-partisan, not mired in legal mumbo-jumbo… just, well, human.
And what better example [...]

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John Kroeker didn’t know it at the time, but a hitchhiking nun in 1978 changed the course of his life.
This doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell made an impulsive decision to drive the nun upstate to her ashram instead of going back to campus, and the conversation they had about meditation during that [...]

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