Month: December 2021

In family caregiving, we caregivers have daily jobs that can try even the most patient among us, and the miracles never come often enough. But they do come. There are moments in family caregiving, just as in parenting, sailing and soldiering, that transcend the tiresome […]

As for me, in our first week I was assigned the class of the youngest children and I had a two year old named Stanzin. Before leaving India, our participation in daily life at the orphanage and school had honed our abilities in living well […]

 Andy spelled it out for them, “I expect you will learn a lot from me in building this bridge together and I expect I will learn as much or more from all of you.” At the time, it was an unheard of idea to the […]

I procured the Oreos for Passang and was rewarded with her bright smile. I cherished her smiles like precious jewels because they didn’t come that often and represented, to me, a resilient healing heart. The whole class liked Oreo cookies, but Passang, my one nine […]