As this has been such a tumultuous year in terms of my health – and energy levels after COVID – my death book has been set aside, very much unintentionally.

In fact, at writer’s conference, I actually made plans to go ahead with it – and it is a project that I am passionate about and determined to see through in the near future.

As I will be taking the Fall Semester off from classes after long talks with my doctors and my husband, who all see that I am not able to return to full capacity yet, I am going to instead spend the Fall working on this, my Handbook for the Eventually Deceased.

The idea behind my book, in sharing my experiences working with patients and their families so often as a nurse in long-term care as well as hospice during the end of life, as well as considering many of other facets of facing death, is to break through some of the modern taboo when it comes to thinking of death, and, more importantly, to remind us all that time is precious and that we must our lives accordingly.

I am so excited to pick up with my work and move forward.

Let’s go.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.