by kelly | Feb 24, 2024 | Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life, Students, Veterans
I didn’t expect to see a dozen neatly folded Army, Navy and Air Force polar fleece blankets on the table when I walked into work on Monday. Each blanket was surrounded by 140 hand-tied knots, patiently tied by members of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers’ Training...
by kelly | Feb 10, 2024 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life, Prescott, AZ, Veterans
If you are lucky enough to make it to the age of 103, it’s likely a lot of people will have special memories about you. When I heard the news that Alton “Al” Cheney had died, some of those moments popped into my head. If you ever met Al, you’d remember him. He’s that...
by kelly | Jan 27, 2024 | Daily Courier, Family, Travel
We packed up the dogs and headed to the beach a few weeks ago. It may seem odd to visit the ocean in January, but the cheap, off-season prices and the lure of humidity and warmer weather — even if it’s only 60 degrees — sounded good to us. We got off to a later start...
by kelly | Jan 13, 2024 | Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life
I was happy to see the snow coming down last Sunday as I let the dogs out. They bolted down the porch stairs, ripping around the backyard like furry maniacs, kicking up frozen plumes behind them before skidding back up the porch stairs at full speed and staring at me...
by kelly | Dec 30, 2023 | Daily Courier, Friends, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ
For the past few years, my friend Terri and I have written “Go bowling at Antelope Lanes” as one of our New Year’s resolutions. She is the official keeper of our resolutions from the previous years. When we get together on New Year’s Eve to make fresh ones, we unseal...
by kelly | Dec 16, 2023 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Nostalgia
When I was a kid, there was nothing I loved more on a hot, sticky Midwest summer day than lying on the living room couch in the air conditioning, reading a book, changing position only when my elbows and back got too stiff from propping me up or my arms fell asleep...
