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 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 | 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...
by kelly | Nov 20, 2021 | Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life
The hardest things to talk about are the most important. We all hope to live to a ripe old age, but not everyone get there. November is always my month to ponder life, not only because my mom and I both have birthdays, but because she died just after her 74th birthday...
by kelly | Oct 19, 2021 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Hospice & End Of Life, Prescott, AZ
“I’m sorry, I don’t know why I’m telling you all of this,” she says before continuing to tell me more stories about her 99-year-old dad over the phone. We talk about the farm he grew up on in the Midwest and what he did for work after World War 2, how he remarried...
