by kelly | Nov 19, 2022 | Assisted Living, Daily Courier, Prescott, AZ, Veterans
It’s a helpless feeling when your car won’t start. It’s even worse when you’re waiting to roll through Prescott as Float No. 50 in the Veterans’ Day Parade, and there’s a Vietnam veteran sitting in the front seat next to you looking forward to being a part of it. “I...
by kelly | Sep 24, 2022 | Alzheimer's, Daily Courier, Prescott, AZ
We all have traditions that we keep, like making green bean casserole at Thanksgiving dinner, even though no one seems to enjoy it enough to serve it any other time of the year. Some traditions we continue because they are meaningful and personal. Every year since we...
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 | 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 | 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...
