One of the questions I love to ask people is, “What is the best day of your life?” I get many answers related to pleasant days people remember; like the day their child was born or they won an expensive … Read More
Question Follow-up for Bernie from Q&A of Last Week (August 27, 2018): Thank you, Bernie. Miraculously my dad was very alert tonight when I got here to the hospice, so I could tell him your message, and he was so … Read More
Question for Bernie: Good morning Bernie, I am writing you because since March, I think I have forgiven myself about the death of Walter. This summer, in July, I went to Portugal to work for two weeks with some people … Read More
If you want to be separated from people become deaf. If you want to be separated from things become blind. Sound affects us because it creates the rhythm we live or die by. So sound effects are real and can … Read More
Sometimes my reaction to common terms is more intense and I question their meaning. One of the terms that struck me recently was ‘finger painting.’ Others were ‘handmade’ and ‘rubbed the wrong way.’ When we touch another life we are … Read More
Life is difficult but it can become intolerable when the child in you dies. When that child dies, so does your sense of humor, and your ability to laugh at life. I know from experience how easy it is to … Read More
When I was four years old, I was home in bed with one of my frequent ear infections. I took a toy telephone I was playing with and unscrewed the dial and put all the pieces in my mouth as … Read More
“To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly.” ~ Henri Bergson, French Philosopher (1859-1941) We plant a seed. It grows through the summer until harvest time arrives, and then we cut … Read More
“To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one, and here he lies.” ~ Lord Byron The above quote is inscribed on a monument erected to Lord Byron’s dog, Boatswain. The epitaph describes the one whose … Read More
Question for Bernie: Dear Bernie, I just returned from New York after my mastectomy. They took 14 lymph nodes out; 3 were affected. The pathology came back OK a couple weeks later. My host in New York had your book … Read More