by Jana Panarites | May 23, 2019 | Podcasts |
We celebrate this Memorial Day with the story of a military caregiver whose husband returned from active duty alive but mentally wounded. Jill Armijo’s husband, Joe, served in the Navy as a machinist and was deployed to a ship in the Persian Gulf just before...
by Jana Panarites | Jun 7, 2018 | Podcasts |
In his new Young Adult (YA) novel, “No Sad Songs,” author Frank Morelli explores youth caregiving through the character Gabe LoScuda, an eighteen-year-old thrust into the role of caregiver for his grandfather when tragedy strikes the family. Gabe’s grandfather is a...
by Jana Panarites | Apr 26, 2018 | Podcasts |
President Trump’s nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department, Dr. Ronny Jackson, just withdrew his name from consideration. But as the VA remains leaderless, the needs of military veterans and their families continue to mount. In today’s show we revisit an...
by Jana Panarites | Mar 22, 2018 | Podcasts |
James Ciervo is the Regional Chapter Director (New York) of the Twilight Wish Foundation, a national organization that’s in the business of making older adults happy. On the show today, James talks about the range of wishes granted by the Foundation, from...
by Jana Panarites | Oct 12, 2017 | Podcasts |
Writer Brandi Neal was twenty-nine years old and living in Maine when she dropped everything and flew to Arizona to help care for her ailing father, a Vietnam War veteran who disappeared from Brandi’s life when she was twelve. In today’s show, Brandi shares her mixed...