Tag Archives: Caregiving

What’s a Center for Grief? An interview with Cindy Ainsworth and Stephanie Demos

Directors at Kara grief center discuss their support programs and the "healing door"
Posted on April 16, 2011 by Aurora Wells (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Kara (the gothic root for “care”) is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization and renowned grief center, providing powerful, free grief support services to the San Francisco Bay Area from their Palo Alto home since 1976.  Truly, the breadth, success, and compassion … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Dr. Marc E. Agronin

The author of "How We Age" breaks it down
Posted on April 3, 2011 by Aurora Wells (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

“How We Age” is Dr. Marc E. Agronin’s memoir about his exposure to aging and death, primarily through his medical practice at a Miami nursing home many call “God’s waiting room.” Through interviews with his patients, personal anecdotes, and expert … Continue reading →

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Six Ways to Give Your Loved One the Best Death Possible

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death.” — Claudio in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Years ago, when my mother cared for … Continue reading →

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“Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter” by Antonia Fraser

by Antonia Fraser
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Florentino Jimenez (Contributor, SevenPonds)

  From a distance, the marriage of Antonia Fraser, a notable British biographer and author, and the late Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate of Literature, would seem an unlikely match; Pinter having been rather irritable and abrasive, while Fraser … Continue reading →

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