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My name is Anne Senni and I started as a hospice volunteer coordinator with BAH on May 10. As a newbie here, I am daily impressed with the rightness of purpose of this organization. On a deep personal level I feel a swelling sense of...
How to Help a Grieving Friend: 11 Things to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do by Megan Devine, founder of Refuge in Grief Author's Note: My essay on how to help a grieving friend is among the top three most shared posts I’ve ever...
How to play “The Hospice Amazing Hunt” Introduction: Thank you for participating in the first Hospice Amazing Hunt. The fee to participate is $200 per team and we encourage teams of two to four players. Exceptions can be made for families. Funds can be raised through sponsorship from...
ASK ALICE This Month's Topic: Conservation Burials Dear Alice, A while back you wrote about green burials, and mentioned several cemeteries in southern Vermont that allow them. You didn’t mention any conservation burial sites in the area, though, and I have heard that those sites are the best...
By Jennie Reichman The eagle has landed! Actually, it’s a crow, and unlike Neil Armstrong’s historic visit to the moon in 1969, this bird has found a permanent nest at the new Experienced Goods location, 80 Flat St. in Brattleboro. After many months of planning, renovations...
Given today’s world, let’s celebrate when something goes right! By Susan Parris You’d be hard-pressed to find another place in our town like Experienced Goods, where a wide variety of people interact daily with such good vibes. All who enter–customers, donors, volunteers, staff–create a shared experience of...
Thank you to our generous Hospice Amazing Hunt sponsors! 802 Credit Union Pam & Lawrin Crispe Brattleboro Savings & Loan Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Swiss Precision Tuning Brattleboro Subaru Chroma Technology The Richards Group Brattleboro Food Co-op Sam's Outdoor Outfitters ...
SAYING GOODBYE TO ABBY by Jane Southworth, longtime BAH supporter Saying goodbye to Abby, my four-legged friend of 14-plus years, has been hard, difficult, excruciating, expected, and swift and for her, I most fervently hope, painless. One knows, when a dog or cat comes to join the family,...
ASK ALICE This Month's Topic: Home Funerals Dear Alice, I have an aunt who is, sadly, nearing the end of her lifetime journey. She has planned her own green burial with a biodegradable box in a local hybrid cemetery, and she has asked her children and me to...
Thank you, Patty, for walking so many of us home. By Susan Parris, Executive Director In my twenty-seven years at Brattleboro Area Hospice, I have met many exceptional volunteers and staff. In a culture where most of us step back when faced with the pain of...