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Leviathan
Just to see how much alcohol the characters in the film consume is enough to make you cry, and that is only one of many sad things about life in modern Russia.
The Importance of Family Planning at the End of Life
Editor’s Note: The second in a two-part series on “Families and Aging” by Lauree Purcell. She has written for Another Way previously. A former city planner, Lauree and her husband, Steve, are parents of two teenage daughters and are members of a Methodist church. Last time I wrote about the positive changes that my family embraced as my parents decided to move nearby in order for us all to spend more time together. My father now has advanced Parkinson’s disease. My mother and I have been holding vigil for several days and have found great comfort in singing to him […]
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
This is the first all-banjo album to be added to my collection, and a marvelous addition it is.
Taking a Positive Role in Our Parents’ Last Years
When my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2009 I wanted to have more time with my parents, to form a closer friendship before it was too late.
Still Alice
Watching Moore forget a dinner date in her early stages, making a video for her future self to find one day, or struggling to locate the bathroom in her vacation home, we see how the disease plays out.
Responding to Violence with Violence
It is too easy to jump from beheadings to a justification of U.S. military actions against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
Today is a Gift
I remember telling Sharon that the odds were not good but doing nothing meant zero percent chance of survival.;;
Kingsman: The Secret Service
No matter how crisp the writing or engaging the characters, the nauseating array of severed limbs and broken necks drain the movie of all the joy it works so hard to supply.
