by kelly | Oct 22, 2022 | Daily Courier, Everything Else
Every morning when I head out the door to work, I look at our front yard garden. It’s been a hard battle, getting flowers and plants into the ground much less making them grow. We live up in the pines, a little higher than downtown Prescott, which means it’s a few...
by kelly | Oct 8, 2022 | Daily Courier, Friends, Hospice & End Of Life, Ron Barnes
Two years ago, I was sitting with a few of my coworkers in Ron Barnes’ living room for the first time. He wanted to talk through an idea he had for his farewell column in the Daily Courier about the hospice services he was receiving and what the care meant to him....
by kelly | Sep 24, 2022 | Alzheimer's, Daily Courier, Prescott, AZ
We all have traditions that we keep, like making green bean casserole at Thanksgiving dinner, even though no one seems to enjoy it enough to serve it any other time of the year. Some traditions we continue because they are meaningful and personal. Every year since we...
by kelly | Sep 10, 2022 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life, Prescott, AZ
When I was a kid, I spent a week each summer at a Campfire camp in Boone, Iowa. Sunday was check-in day, and we’d run around taking swim tests, signing up for crafts, and making friends with the kids in our cabin, followed by supper in the big lodge and what seemed to...
by kelly | Aug 27, 2022 | Covid, Daily Courier, Family, Friends
It could have been the bowling alley. I always wonder if they ever clean the finger holes of bowling balls. Or maybe the Italian restaurant, packed on a Sunday night, everyone laughing and talking as they passed around breadsticks and slurped spaghetti. I’d been a lot...
