by kelly | Dec 3, 2022 | Daily Courier, Friends, Nostalgia
I got a text the other day from a Canadian friend I hadn’t talked to in a long time and hadn’t seen in person for thirteen years. Kimberly was going to be in Arizona for the weekend, joining her husband on a business trip, and wanted to know how far away I lived from...
by kelly | Nov 5, 2022 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Family, Nostalgia, Senior Living
By the time you read this column, I will officially be considered a senior citizen by Goodwill and a host of other local establishments with discounts for the 55-plus crowd. I’m still mulling over how I feel about achieving this status, even though I enjoy saving...
by kelly | Aug 13, 2022 | Daily Courier, Nostalgia, Prescott, AZ
This week, I met a recent Prescott transplant who repairs clocks for a living. He seemed younger than I expected someone with that job to be, so I asked him how he happened to choose clock repair as a career. Turns out he’s a third-generation, a skill passed down from...
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 | 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 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...
