by kelly | Apr 9, 2022 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ
The other day I was giving a tour of our assisted living to a lady who is 100 years old. She brought her children along, who are visiting from out of town. She’s not quite ready to give up living on her own in her senior apartment but wanted to show her kids where she...
by kelly | Mar 26, 2022 | Daily Courier, Family, Nostalgia
Music can make you feel young again, but it can also remind you how old you’re getting. The other day, an old college roommate of mine sent a link to a music festival she’s going to this summer. She’s an English professor now, so part of her job is teaching study...
by kelly | Mar 12, 2022 | Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Veterans
It’s hard not to follow the news all day, every day, as this Russia-Ukraine war continues to grow. It is half a world away, yet every movement and bombing is broadcast across news sites and social media as it happens, like a horrible action movie coming to life, a...
by kelly | Feb 26, 2022 | Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ
The other night we were enjoying dinner at a local restaurant, and the Winter Olympics were on in the background. It was the four-man bobsled event, and I nudged my husband and pointed at the TV. “I think I would have been good at bobsledding,” I said. He laughed at...
by kelly | Feb 12, 2022 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Family, Hospice & End Of Life, Veterans
I have heard those six words and the verse that follows them from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 at almost every wedding I’ve attended. It was read at our wedding, and I’d bet it was read at my parents’ wedding too. It’s a good verse to start married life thinking about,...
by kelly | Jan 29, 2022 | Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life, Prescott, AZ
It’s hard to know what to expect when you sit in a room full of strangers to talk about death. It’s a topic that most of us don’t like to think about, even though we’re all going to get there someday. Which is one of the reasons a man named Jon Underwood started the...
