Death can be a cloak of hard and heavy lead. It can accumulate the Big Deaths and become the pain you trudge with, weighing on your spine, crumpling your legs and twisting your ankles — and the hardest part is that it is invisible Death can be a cloak of…

To say someone is middle aged and going thru a midlife crisis at age 50 is rarely accurate — that would imply the person will live until age 100 which in the US, only .0173 humans do. Our “half-way point” is unknown but more likely if we were to use…

A Community Deathcare Perspective This piece is intended for those who are one or more steps away from “ground zero” who have an interest in what to “do.” In my line of work, this is called community deathcare. When the news of a violent death or deaths drops us to…

My graduating class of 22 students was the largest in all of grades K-12. And when I say class, I mean the whole grade because there was only one class. People in town talked about how big it was. I had known the majority of my classmates since I was…

The Fear of Body Transport and Care for the Dead Runs Deep I work with Vermont families regularly to assist them with the maze-work of Family Directed Funerals. …

An Inquiry About Examining Our Bloody Underpants — One Year Later The pandemic of 2020 opened a new level of cynicism and division. I’m not going to explain to you where and why and how you’ll have to do that backwork yourself. I’m jumping off at the accusation that was…

Full Spectrum Deathcare is A Community Endeavor There are a great many death doula trainings out there and more are sprouting up all the time. Without a central scope of practice it can be really confusing which to choose to spend your money on and engage in. I was trained…

The Dangers Of Mice and Hysterical Women Recently, I’ve been studying the medical atrocities inflicted upon women over the past several hundred years and examining the gross negligence of our current medical care for women. I will never write a dissertation on this, but as a woman on earth whose…