Marshfield Clinic is offering free workshops called “Caring Conversations” to highlight the importance of people exploring their goals and values related to future medical decisions in the event they are unable to communicate those wishes.

There are only three ways for wildlife to survive our winters. They either hibernate, like black bears, migrate, like our ruby-throated hummingbirds, or remain here to take their chances with the winter elements, like our black-capped chickadees.

Years ago, my husband and I decided to go to Jamaica for our twenty-fifth anniversary. This is a story I've told often. What it says about me is either one of the following: I'm way too stubborn, or I have an overabundance of perseverance.