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AMAZING, INDEED! We can admit it - "fun" is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of hospice. That's part of what made Saturday, August 13, so special. The Hospice Amazing Hunt, our summer fundraiser, was a rousing success: Clues were found,...
Since the advent of social media, many of us have reconnected with people from our pasts: childhood friends, old flames, mentors and teachers we may not have properly thanked when we went charging off to slay the dragons of our youth. It’s a wonderous thing...
I confess, I am a creature of habit and routine. While some people feel most alive in an atmosphere of chaos and instability, stimulated by uncertainty, I thrive when I know what’s coming. I like to plan and organize. I am the person who, when...
Our volunteers are an incredible group of people who provide comfort and practical help to their neighbors at end of life. Each Spring and Fall, Brattleboro Area Hospice offers an in-person training for hospice volunteers. Hospice volunteers support neighbors and their families who are living with...
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...
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...
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...