After 24 years, we are preparing our family home for sale. It turns out that sanding down walls is a lot like looking back at a life. You see the layers, the repairs, and the history. As I stand here covered in the dust of two decades, the lessons I learned during my years in hospice have never felt more urgent. Hospice teaches you that we don’t actually own anything. Not a house, not a title, not a status. We are just stewards for a little while. The only thing we truly leav

As this year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the last 12 months of my personal life. A lot of it was heavy. A lot of it required honesty — even when I didn’t feel ready for it. If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s this: life doesn’t wait for us to feel ready. A Year That Didn’t Pause ⏳ This year, my husband Louis faced a cancer recurrence while I was dealing with my own cancer scare. There was no pause button.No moment where life slowed down so we could catch o