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Read moreDear Peter: Where does one find the patience to deal with insurance companies? Myra, feeling claimless in Seattle
Frustration When Dealing With Insurance Companies
Insurance companies are not that complicated. They’re businesses driven by financial decisions not emotional ones. When we are in the throes of caregiving, our emotions run high and often unchecked. When getting on the phone with an insurance representative, remember that they have a job to do.
She Lived to Sing about It
The defining hymn of my father's entire career as a minister continues to be "A Balm in Gilead" There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. There is a balm in Gilead...
Gracie: Resilient
ResilientThe New CD From Standing With Hope Founder, Gracie Rosenberger This CD Is our gift to YOU for a tax-deductible contribution to Standing With Hope for any amount. For...
Pulpits not Politics in Reducing Gun Violence
Gun Safety or Gun Control? In the wake of the Texas, and Ohio shootings, Fox News’ Dana Perino asked Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove about legislation...
For This Family In Crisis: “There’s No Solution, But There’s a Path!”
A Multi-generational Family in Crisis For many caregivers, they are a family in crisis. With a rampant drug culture and the disintegration of the family, more and more...
The Lost Office of Pastor
A minister called into my talk show to share his struggles while his wife cared for her dying mother and elderly father. Identifying as a bi-vocational pastor, he commiserated...
A Line In the Sand …For Life
From Hawaii to New York, the month of January 2019 served as a banner month for politicians weighing to the viability of life.
Toxic Masculinity and the Family Caregiver
TOXIC MASCULINITY:The Tweet that Launched a Thousand Razor Burns Apparently, Donald Trump isn’t the only one who can set off a firestorm with a Tweet. Gillette seems to be giving...
Medically Assisted Death and The Family Caregiver
Medically Assisted Death and the Family CaregiverAs more states adopt paths for medically assisted death, family caregivers remain virtually omitted from the...
A Salute for the Ages
So many moving things reflected the best of America during the entire week with the Bush family following the funeral of President George H.W. Bush. Tributes,...
There Used to Be M & M’s
For as long as I can remember, when my father came home from reserve duty in the military, he brought small gifts. Each of my brothers and my sister received a pack...
Truckers and Trauma
Truckers and TraumaPeter RosenbergerOn Interstate 40 in west Tennessee, a young woman in a sedan sped past a group of truckers on November 18,1983. Maneuvering her...