by kelly | Jul 16, 2022 | Daily Courier, Everything Else, Nostalgia
The opening scene of the 1997 movie “Contact” popped in my head while clicking through the imagery sent back from the James Webb Space Telescope this week. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s worth looking up the three-minute opening scene on the Internet. Starting...
by kelly | Jul 2, 2022 | Daily Courier, Family
It’s been five years since I grasped the metal handrails at Mather Point and stared at the vast canyon rippling out across the horizon. The first years we lived here, we were amateur tour guides to friends checking out our new home in Arizona and wanting to see the...
by kelly | Jun 18, 2022 | Daily Courier, Everything Else
Maybe we didn’t think it through when we decided to take a vacation finally and booked a few days at a rental house near Tubac. I looked at the weather map before we left and saw Thursday’s projected high was 108 degrees. It may be a dry heat, but that’s still pretty...
by kelly | Jun 4, 2022 | Daily Courier, Prescott, AZ, Senior Living
The thought of people taking the time to write letters to other people they don’t know for the sole reason of brightening their day makes me happy. I enjoy a good random act of kindness, but I wouldn’t have even heard of an organization called “Love For Our Elders” if...
by kelly | May 7, 2022 | Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ
When I think of all the aunts, mothers, and grandmothers in my life, most of them had a signature dish or a meal they made that was a family favorite, held in such high esteem you were afraid to try to make it on your own because you knew your version of “Grandma...
by kelly | Apr 23, 2022 | Daily Courier, Everything Else, Prescott, AZ
“Most people that meet Trevor just think that he’s really shy,” his mom Stacy Guglielmotti told me. “He doesn’t always make eye contact. They don’t necessarily know he’s autistic, but they know he’s different.” April is Autism Acceptance month and the hashtag...
