Covid-19 has increased Americans' awareness of the need to have a will or living trust. Yet many are still behind on the estate planning they need.| CNBC
There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday), not one of us—no matter how charmed our lives may seem—escapes bad news. On a bright, sunny October day in 2024, such news came for me. I […] The post Society needs to make space for complicated grief appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Resources to pray for the souls of the reposed, as well as prayers for our own perseverance in the faith, a good death, and final repentance.| Orthodox Reflections
It was Silvia – she had discovered him before I did – who told me: ‘Look at his hands while he talks.’ He was standing there, legs slightly apart (with hiking boots, we were in the mountains); he w…| This Reading Life
When your character drops to 0 hit points1 in On A Red World Alone, two things happen:| Papers & Pencils
When my mother first moved to an assisted living facility, they placed her under hospice care. Being the stubborn and contrary person that she was, she fought them every step of the way until they disenrolled her (she lived for five more years). We weren’t sure why she was put on that plan, but I ended up feeling it was a very good program that was more holistic than most medical treatment today. | Karen Christino
Tattoos have harmful physical and spiritual impacts. 32 percent of Americans have one. Why are we doing this to ourselves?| Orthodox Reflections