by admin | Jun 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dear Doctor, Thank you for the excellent care you have given me. I also appreciate your honesty in letting me know when I had reached a point in my disease where you could no longer make things better. You could have waited until I had only a few weeks – or even days...
by admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Fundraising, Hospice, Uncategorized, Volunteering
What’s better than hosting a great party? Hosting a great party for a great cause. A small, committed group of women helped produce Hospice Austin’s Vino y Virtuosos party for many years. Now the group has banded back together and is hosting a new event: A Venetian...
by admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Being Present, Uncategorized
The previous three weeks had been hard ones. We’d gone too many miles on not enough gallons and even little comforts had been few and far between. A year-and-a-half into our travels, we were quite used to basic accommodations: small beds, lumpy mattresses, sheets...
by admin | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Madison Irby knows all too well about loss. Her father died in a car accident when she was six years old. Her mother remembers those first terrible years — the grief, the isolation, the hiding in the house on father’s day. When Madison was 12, her mother...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Fundraising, Hospice, Uncategorized
It was a nail-biting finish. Amplify Austin’s goal this year for its 24-hour online giving festival was to raise $7 million for over 500 nonprofits. Hospice Austin set the lofty goal of raising $250,000 in online donations. That goal was so lofty, in fact, that we...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard ended her life on November 1, 2014 with a lethal dosage of prescribed drugs. Her incurable illness was a tragedy. Her candor and willingness to share her final days with the public were acts of courage which illustrate the need to...
