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Life and Death in Community by Lars Hunter, Bereavement Program Coordinator As we enter a season of change it’s easy to write about trees and changing colors, but this year I’m going to write about birds. I frequently go to a local business where I use...
Listening and Helping by Jennie Reichman I love it when another writer inspires me. As a songwriter, I’ve often listened to a song performed by a musician I admire and felt a switch flip inside me, like an engine starting up and being flooded with fuel. Suddenly...
Reiki Bringing Comfort and Peace by Fran Freeman In January 1993, living in Boca Raton, Florida, I received word that my mother, who lived in Massachusetts, had lung cancer. Without hesitation my husband Don said, “Well, you have to be with her.” I took...
How Can I Help? by Jennie Reichman When something catastrophic happens, many people remember where they were or what they were doing at that moment. When the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center happened in 2001, I was trying to call my then husband’s...
Willow Finds a Home by Kris McDermet, Hospice Care and Bereavement volunteer In May of this year, Stewart participated in a Brattleboro Area Hospice vigil case. He sat with M for one visit before she sadly passed away in her home, which she shared with her cute...
Rain, Rain, Go Away By Lars Hunter, Bereavement Care Coordinator As I sit here writing this piece in my office at 191 Canal St., I’m looking out the window at the drenching rain that continues to pour down and seemingly has no end. Last night and this...
By Jennie Reichman As astrological sign personalities go, I am about as Taurus as they come. Stubborn, quiet, relatively slow to anger (don’t push me too far, though), enamored of beauty, the outdoors, good food, art, fiercely loyal. I do not like my feet to leave...
Reflections on 20 Years of Hallowell by Kathy Leo, founding member The beginning is always an unknown journey. How can we know what lies ahead, where a path may lead, how an idea can grow and shape, can include and bestow. Hallowell took its first baby steps...
Note: The BAH Memorial Garden is located on the side of Living Memorial Park (directly across from 21 Guilford Street, on the hillside adjacent to the road). On June 6, we will have our first springtime Planting Service at the Memorial Garden since 2019, when the...
By Jennie Reichman It’s cliché to say that the older we get, the faster time seems to pass. Most cliches, however, got that way by containing a kernel of truth. Suddenly children who were toddlers only, what? Two years ago? Are headed for their first year...