By Gary Hume | Jun 23, 2015
Living Aloha is my encore. The Hawaiian dictionary definition of Aloha includes: love, affection, kindness, charity. Aloha is a way of being, and I am able to share that spirit in all I do in my work as a Donor Development Associate with Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, a...
By Media Coverage | Apr 6, 2015
My father died in 1979. My mother died in 2009. With both parents gone, the worst memories from my childhood began to come. Suddenly, after not having written poetry for over 20 years, poems began to rise up out of me. As horrific memory after memory came, I wrote...
By Karen M. Sughrue | May 16, 2017
When classes begin each day at Leith Walk elementary school in Baltimore, Robin Weems is there to greet her first grade students. And so is Robin’s husband, Warren, a retired Marine, because Warren is his wife’s classroom assistant. This...
By Karen M. Sughrue | May 16, 2017
JEWEL: I am an 82-year old widow and, along with Susan, my 60-year old partner, we are what’s known as “bedside singers,” visiting patients in a hospice facility who are terminally ill and dying. I began doing this after the death of my husband. We...
