She’d found out she had leukemia right about when I started trying to get pregnant. Her cells...
Category: Caring for a Friend
When you give a friend a kidney
Brandon and Scott met as adversaries in a union negotiation and somehow became golf buddies....
Everyone Deserves a Death Buddy: The Value of Death Positive Friendships
But it was upon her death that I realized, in addition to being my best friend, she was my Death...
How A T-Shirt Company Built An Inclusive, Visual Workplace With Trello
Caregiving isn't just a family thing, it's everything we do to help people with disabilities...
The Boxed Generation: Caring and Coping on All Sides
Baby Boomers and Gen Xer’s had better get used to this complex reality, because their generations...
Seeing-Eye Runner
When I asked Luanne (5 days before the event) to be my partner for the TransRockies Run, a...
How Our Friendship Survived Mental Illness
People have described having a mental health condition as living in a bubble that isolates them...
The dangerous topic of appreciation
Does the person who you caregive for appreciate what you do? It's a dangerous question to ask,...
What do you miss most about your “old life”?
Caregiving changes your life forever. Even when caregiving ends, we've been transformed. Here's...
Chosen Family Should Be Included in Paid Leave Policy. We Already Know It Could Work.
When my partner’s best friend had eye surgery, he was in a bind: He couldn’t get home to recover...
In a woman’s dying days, a quiet visitor helps light the way home
She only wanted to be home. The woman, who was around 40, had terminal cancer, and she wanted to...
What living with food intolerance taught me about dependence
For the last eight months, I haven’t had a job. But my husband continues to do his share of the...
Police killings: the price of being disabled and black in America
On Sunday morning, Charleena Lyles called the Seattle police to report a burglary. She was a black...
Queer Crip Love Fest: Who Will Be My Emergency Contact?
Recently, thanks to a case of crip burnout, I decided to “just go with it” when a specialist...
Back Home, at Home
Great caregivers are as skilled as an anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist takes over the...
Repeat After Me: Care Collectives and the Practice of Community Based Care
I hit the wall because I didn’t want to need help, because I felt betrayed by my body and I didn’t...
Queer Crip Love Fest: Nobody Can Go Through This World Alone
From that point on we threw ourselves into the swing of things while we slowly figured each other...
Nothing is impossible
Ramirez, 41, had never run a mile in her life until about four years ago, when she decided she...
A Comic About Aging Together
Jane Komori's comic explores her grandparent's experiences in aging and what their lives can teach...