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Experts worry hoarding is on the rise in Kansas amid a lack of support for those who struggle with it, straining families and communities.

Hello, I’m Lynne Hewes. I’ve just finished reading the books on HPPR’s Radio Readers’ fall list—and I’m not at all depressed.When I discovered that our…

This is Leslie VonHolten of Lawrence with another HPPR Radio Readers’ Book Byte.My father-in-law was a quiet, devout farmer who raised corn, hogs, and…

The supremest act of love is to cover the shame of the vulnerable. On the other hand, to broadcast their shame -- even a caricature of it -- is the worst…

This is Denise Low, a regular contributor to the High Plains Public Radio Book Club.When my mother had her first health crisis, the social worker at the…

A hundred years ago the Sears and Roebuck catalog, in addition to ordinary household goods, carried numerous advertisements for coffins, wreaths, and…

In the last part of his book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande addresses the events following his father’s being diagnosed with a rare caner, astrocytoma of the…

“Aging.” That used to be just a word, one not often considered, that I reflexively associated with gaining access to things and experiences previously…

I’m Dr Phillip Periman from Amarillo TX. In Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, I found the second chapter the most…

In his book Being Mortal, Dr. Atul Gawande discusses nursing homes and why 50% of us will spend a year or more of our lives in one. The other 50%,…