Karen Paul is a writer and the principal of Catalyzing Philanthropy, a fundraising and development consultancy. She is working on a book about her grief and trauma as a caretaker for a spouse with terminal brain cancer. She has had essays and short stories published in The Washington Post, Lilith Magazine, Modern Loss, Motherwell, Red Wheelbarrow, Seltzer, Heartscapes and the two-volume pandemic collection, When We Turned Within. Karen is currently in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has held grief writing workshops at the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, Sixth and I Synagogue and CaringMatters.
It’s called the Doctrine of Double Effect, a philosophical conundrum but with real-life implications. For a doctor, it means that you are permitted to do something... Read more.
