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Free Like the Bees
Margaret was suffering from a deep debilitating depression. I met her for the first time in an outpatient support group. We were talking...


Slowing Down
How we love to run our lives at a good clip! We remain focused on the tasks at hand and feel a sense of accomplishment when we finish...


It's a Wonderful Life!
Just this past week, I had the opportunity to facilitate a group of prior inpatient stroke patients. The topic was gratitude. I took...


The Baby is Born!
After waiting over a year for the process to complete, the written book is now in our hands! Two boxes of books arrived and were set on...


Our Baby is Coming!!
Thanks to our generous donors, For the Love of Blankets, has been given a due date and is expected to arrive en masse by the end of...


Hamburger to Go!
I asked the patient who told me that she was raised in a Methodist family but had been baptized a Catholic for the sake of her husband....


Happy as a Clam
A few years ago, I received a message from a family member from one of my colleagues. It was on a sticky note and pressed on to my desk....


The Last Thing He Needed
Joe was a large man with a large head, white as a clean sheet of paper. He sat on the edge of his bed, his head in his hands, eyes closed....


Loving Choices
A call came through to our office at the front end of the day. “There’s a patient on your floor who wants a priest,” Jacob said. “Maybe I...


Love Blankets
It was a few years ago that I began writing stories about the blankets that were given out to patients at some of the hospitals where I...
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