Monthly Archives: November 2016

This book is not centrally about death, dying or hospice. It is about stories that I made into written memoirs for ordinary people. And while the people are ordinary—running the gamut from prep cook to children’s optometrist and from housewife to evangelical minister—their stores are anything but. Each chapter in […]

Book Chapters – People I’ve Known

15 Nov, 2016 in Book Discussion by Richard Haverlack

This weekend I finished and delivered the memoir of a delightful 92 year old woman. Once again I heard stories that even the best fiction writer would have a hard time inventing. Here is just a sampling of what I learned: Even though the term “women’s lib” would not be […]

A hospice patient’s story

15 Nov, 2016 in Hospice Discussion / Writing Discussion by Richard Haverlack

Perhaps just as you might be right now, I was at wit’s end when my uncle, for whom I was responsible, was dying. In the hospital, a place of professionals for making people better, no one told me about hospice, a place where professionals to ease dying can be found. […]

Confusion, sadness and hope

13 Nov, 2016 in Hospice Discussion by Richard Haverlack