The Reverend Wakil David Matthews has worked many years in hospice as a chaplain, and in funeral services and end-of-life planning and companionship. He offers classes on end-of-life, grief counseling, and interfaith (or no faith!) spiritual direction. For more please visit endoflifeconvos.substack.com.

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Patrick Granfield is a writer, policy professional, and editor who served at high levels of the Obama Administration, as a speechwriter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and prior to politics, as a journalist in the Middle East. He also taught high school. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Bulwark, among others, and lives with his wife and two kids in Virginia. He is also a MikeyOpp subscriber.

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Russell Van Brocklen is a New York State Senate-funded dyslexia researcher with severe dyslexia. His articulation-first writing program moved students from a middle-school writing level to graduate level on the GRE Analytical Writing Assessment — a 7–8 grade-level leap in one school year. He was told he’d never read at grade level, but he reads at graduate level, and he’s helping others do the same! For more, check out: https://dyslexiaclasses.com/author/admin/

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