As Americans, our collective remembrance and solidarity have often centered around one key question: Where were you when — ? For my (white) parents’ generation, the question was: Where were […]
Several months ago, as summer was just beginning, I wrote on behalf of the Partners in Health and Wholeness team to mark the tragic milestone of 1,000 lives lost to […]
“Quite simply, human relationship is as essential to our well-being as food and water.” –former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Within the global pandemic of Covid-19 lies another deadly yet often […]
As the daughter of parents who are deep into their eighties, these past four months have been particularly worrisome since Covid-19 reshaped all our lives into unknown territory. And, as of […]
As of this morning, Thursday, June 4, the Raleigh News & Observer reported that Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 999 North Carolinians. We, the staff of Partners in Health […]
May is Mother’s Day. It is high school and college graduations, Memorial Day weekend barbecues and beach trips , and the anticipation of summer’s more languid pace. May is also […]
When I was a kid my friends and I would sometimes, in the middle of a conversation, go very still and say, with great solemnity: “I’m serious as a heart […]
According to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, in 2015, approximately 43.5 million caregivers provided unpaid care to an adult or child in the last twelve months. That’s a […]
