Steady CM readers know that my siblings and I recently set up our 91-year-old father’s house to accommodate round-the-clock nursing care. We turned our late mother’s dressing room into a pretty single bedroom just twenty feet from Dad’s bed so that the live-in nurse can quickly rise and attend to Dad in the middle of…

Hey gals: Do you want to have a good menopause? This may not be the most burning question for all of my readers, but for those of us contemplating it, please, can we talk? I was just saying to the critical care nurse practitioner/nutritionist who has become my reproductive health caretaker that I really want…

“I sometimes wish you were more of a religious teacher,” I once told a therapist I’d been seeing for years. “My own children have said the same thing,” he said. Then I think he chuckled softly. Today, many more psychotherapists are acquainting themselves with life’s spiritual dimension in spite of their training. Times have changed,…

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