by kelly | May 22, 2021 | Daily Courier, Family
It’s been 13,689 days since I passed my driver’s test. I remember how important it was to me to earn that freedom and the excitement of driving my parent’s station wagon into town on my own for the first time. This past week, we’ve been teaching one of our nieces how...
by kelly | May 21, 2021 | Daily Courier, Everything Else, Prescott, AZ
Life can be going along just fine and then you do something dumb, like not checking if there’s a toothpick in the appetizer you’ve just popped into your mouth and gulped down without really chewing. After quickly googling “what happens if you swallow a toothpick” and...
by kelly | May 8, 2021 | Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ, Senior Living
This is the 110th year that we’ve celebrated Mother’s Day in every U.S. state, according to Wikipedia. My earliest memories of celebrating my mom involved breaking off a few purple lilac blooms from the backyard and wrapping them in a damp paper towel to present to...