by kathykastner | Nov 17, 2022 | Speaker
The Completed Life initiative explores, from a spectrum of perspectives, what a ‘completed life’ means I attend many of their virtual events, and was delighted to be invited as a guest on one of their Death Café Roundtables. Roundtable Death Café...
by kathykastner | Oct 24, 2022 | Patient Partner
I’ve been patient partnering since discovering I didn’t understand the jargon in a pre-natal class. That motivated creating videos for expectant parents that became one of two television networks broadcasting in top teaching hospitals across North...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
Monday: I went to the library to renew my card and found myself asking the young woman with streaks of neon in her hair where I might find product. She looked up: “Um, ok, go for it, I guess” and grudgingly told me where to go. I was so crushed I didn’t even have the...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
I always felt fortunate that I had as my ‘aging’ model, a mother who started tap dancing at age 66, and became associate TV producer at age 68. But my real insight into a joyous journey to the End came via a tweet chat. My mother was a force of nature. She...