Cafe´Care Consults at The Common Cafe´in Norwood, MA this Saturday, February 9, will be rescheduled for a future date. Check the events schedule at rest-stop-ranch.com for updates!

Yesterday I sat for the first time at a table of twenty-five community leaders who are protecting and supporting the most vulnerable in our local community North of Boston. The group is comprised of state social service agency representatives, and a few private and non-profit provider representatives. I was the first person to arrive at […]

Today I attended my first meeting of the Mass Lifespan Respite Coalition. The on-site group of 15 and phone participants included family caregivers and representatives from state, non-profit, and private organizations. The group was originally formed as a result of the federal lifespan respite act (2006), federal funding (2009), that reached the state of Massachusetts […]

On April 11, 2012, Marymac Missions officially became the 99th graduate of the Sustainable Business Leader Program offered by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston. We are a certified Sustainable Business Leader through the year 2014! We worked with SBLP coordinator Katrina Kazda and other team members over two years to make changes and […]

Friends, One year ago, on Good Friday of Holy Week, I was called by a long-term family caregiver in New Mexico who benefited so much from our forty-minute conversation she told me I should become a life coach. I became certified as a Professional Coach and Group Leader this past December. Since then, I’ve coached […]

Time has come for me to find my twitter voice. As a former family dementia caregiver in an ongoing process of recovery and renewal, and the founder of a social enterprise championing health and wellness for caregivers and receivers, I didn’t feel I had much to tweet about before now. I wasn’t sure what role […]

Seven unique garden areas are now wheelchair accessible at Rest.Stop.Ranch, our home, in Topsfield, MA, USA. The MargFMac Front Garden Loop is a .1 mile wheelchair accessible path providing access to the Cut Flower Garden, Fruit and Veggie Garden, Orchard Avenue, Ornamental Tree and Shrub Garden, Raspberry Patch, Cedar Grove and Tunnel, and Koi Pond. […]