End of Life
PUBLICATIONS
articles in blue are available for reading
Awards
2010 An excerpt from Lessons for the Living will be included in Melvin McCleod’s Best Buddhist Writings of 2010
2009 Lessons for the Living, London Book Festival, Grand Prize Winner
2009 Lessons for the Living, London Book Festival, Best Book Spiritual Category
2009 Top Books of the Year, Lessons for the Living, MyShelf.com
2009 Volunteer of the Year, Hospice Volunteer Association
2009 Cyrus Webb Conversations Book Club, Top Books of the Year
2007 Accepting Death. This I Believe NPR/PBS national radio program. One of six essayists chosen to read in San Francisco. December
2005 1st Place, Living in the Elephant’s Footprint, Nonfiction, 16th Annual Jack London Writing Conference
2004 $10,000 Winner, Fixing? Helping? Or Serving? John Templeton World-Wide Essay Competition
2002 3rd Place, Images of New York, Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest
Books
Goldberg, S. (2009) Lessons for the Living: Stories of Forgiveness, Gratitude and Courage at the End of Life. Trumpeter (a Shambhala Press Imprint), Boston.
Book Chapters
Goldberg, S. (2005) Fixing? Helping? Or Serving?, in The Power of Purpose Awards, Coismo: New York.
Magazine Articles
Goldberg, S. (2009) Learning from our losses. Living With Loss. Winter
Goldberg, S. (2009) The hard work of dying. Shambhala Magazine. Oct/Nov.
Goldberg, S. (2006) Shedding your fears. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 13:1, 63-67.
Goldberg, S. (2005)Searching for healing. Cover article, inaugural edition, International Inquirer, Oct CSU, Fresno, CA
Goldberg, S., (2005) A Life Changed: Lessons Learned as a Hospice Volunteer, SFSU Magazine, Winter, Vol. 5, no 1 (cover article).
2005 Peter Jennings Begins Chemotherapy, Mediabistro.com, Apr., 13 (archived online).
2005 In the News: ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Diagnosed with Lung Cancer, ourgriefmatters.com, May (archived online).
Goldberg, S. (2004) Fixing? Helping? Serving?, San Francisco Call (reprinted from Power of Purpose Awards), Nov 23.
Goldberg, S.A. (2003). You’ve Got It! Mt. Zion Cancer Clinic Magazine. Winter Edition.
Goldberg, S.A. (2003) Are We Losing Our Heart? ASHA Leader, June
Poetry
Goldberg, S.A. (2003) Steve & Mac, North Beach Beat, Arts and Literary Edition, Vol 1, 9.
Goldberg, S.A. (2002) A Bean Hollow Goodbye. Potpourri Magazine. Winter edition.
Goldberg, S.A. (2002) A Bean Hollow Goodbye. Erato Literary Magazine.
Goldberg, S.A. (2002) Images of New York Erato Literary Magazine.
Goldberg, S.A. (2001) Images of New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 14, 2001.
Newspaper Columns
2009 Caretaker Needs-A Call for Understanding. Hospice Volunteer News (featured regular article). First Quarter.
2007 The Magic of Music Hospice Volunteer News (featured regular article). Third Quarter
2007 Respect: What it Means to a Dying Person. Hospice Volunteer News (featured regular article). Second Quarter
2006 Communicating is Not Just Words. Hospice Volunteer News (featured regular article). Third Quarter.
2006 Ritual: How We Heal, Hospice Volunteer News, (featured regular article). Second Quarter.
2006 Death, the final transition. Hospice Volunteer News. (First Quarter).
Radio/TV Editorials
2005 Leaning Into the Sharp Points, KQED Perspective Series, Oct 6, 8 (archived online).
Magazine/Newspaper Interviews
2009 Cancer’s Silver Lining. Cure: Cancer Updates, Research & Education Vol 8,
no. 4
Internet/Blog Articles
2010 Dying stands common logic on its head. examiner.com, January 3.
2010 The final gift: Helping our loved ones die. examiner.com, December 9.
2009 Cudos to 60 minutes: Quality of death or quantity of life. examiner.com November 23
2009 Faces of grief. examiner.com November 13
2009 End of life debate: taking a lesson from the 1960’s. examiner.com August, 25.
2009 Eunice Shriver. A lesson in dying for loved ones. examiner.com August 14
2009 End of life counseling. Health care reform heats up. examiner.com August 13
2009 Hospice care. False charges from health care bill opponents. examiner.com August 11.
