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Kayla Bonkowski | What Foster Dogs Need That a Shelter Cannot Give Them
Shelters save animals. What happens in a foster home is something different, and the difference matters for every animal that passes through one. Shelters save lives. They provide physical safety, veterinary care, and intake processing for animals who would otherwise have no protection. Without them, the animal welfare situation in most American cities would be…
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Kayla Bonkowski | Why CrossFit Is Not a Weight Loss Program
People use it to lose weight. That is not what it is designed to do. The distinction explains why it works when other approaches don’t. CrossFit is a strength and conditioning methodology. The workouts are measurable, scalable, and scored. Progress is tracked against previous results. The stated goal is to improve performance across a broad…
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Kayla Bonkowski | The Grief Nobody Prepares a Family For
There are two grief periods in a terminal illness. Most families only know about one of them. The grief that comes after a death is the one people expect. The condolence calls, the casseroles, the cards. Society has rituals for it. What happens before the death is less acknowledged and, for many families, significantly harder…
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Kayla Bonkowski | What Hospice Social Workers Actually Do All Day
The role is one of the least understood in end-of-life care. Most families can describe what the hospice nurse does. The social worker is harder to explain. Most families cannot describe what a hospice social worker does. They can describe the nurse. They can describe the physician who signed the hospice order. The social worker…