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Author: Maggie Davis

Maggie Davis is an author, publisher and volunteer community caregiver living in East Blue Hill, Maine. In 1993, after being published in New York and elsewhere for nearly two decades, she created Heartsong Books to move her books into the world in person-to-person ways that reflected the all-embracing vision expressed on their pages.

Maggie Steincrohn Davis is co-founder of Neighborcare-a joyful band of volunteers offering free-of-charge, health-related assistance in thirteen towns and beyond since 1995. Read The Neighborcare Story here at the Empowering Caregivers Site.

The Story of Neighborcare

By Maggie Davis
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Volunteer Service Programs

Maggie Davis describes how this very unique concept of caring for others in need evolved on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Northern Maine.

Loved Ones Dying

By Maggie Davis
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Wellness

A very inspiring and uplifting story.The author shares her end of life walk with both her parents…

Promises To Keep

By Maggie Davis
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Days we are busy, we sometimes forget there are people counting on us to act on promises we have made, within a time frame we ourselves have agreed to.

Caregiving In Settings That ‘Test’ Us

By Maggie Davis
  • Aging

Sometimes for caregivers the most difficult thing is to care for someone we would rather run from-not because of the physical demands but because their nature clashes with our own.

Crossing All The Bridges

By Maggie Davis
  • Aging

What if another’s injury could feel like our own, even if we had never suffered that injury ourselves? What if we could take to heart another’s disappointment or trial?

In The Cradle Of Our Arms

By Maggie Davis
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Imaging having way-stations in place where even the hardiest of us could walk in off the street to find tenderness, to gain strength and then be glad to pass the kind attentions on.

Open Wide The Door

By Maggie Davis
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Children & Youth
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

What one person sees as a “testing” situation, another may not. It is folly to compare situations, claiming our circumstances are worse than others’.

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