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Our hospice library collection is now cataloged online, which allows you to search for and reserve books from home. We can then pull the book from the shelf for you to pick up at your convenience. Here is the direct link: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bahospice Have a look around! To...

30 December, 2021

ASK ALICE Dear Alice, Happy new year! My New Year’s resolution for 2021 was to complete my advance directive (AD) and discuss my wishes with my agents and other loved ones.  And believe it or not, I did it!  It wasn’t easy, but I completed the last of...

28 December, 2021

Most of you who have been reading this column for any amount of time know I am a foodie and love to cook. I subscribe to both The New York Times cooking website and the print and online versions of Fine Cooking. A new recipe...

28 December, 2021

Thanksgiving It was a dark, cold, December evening when we were called to sing for Lucy. There was no further treatment for the metastasized breast cancer that would take her life. She had come home to die with her family around her.  They had put off...

13 December, 2021

A few weeks ago, I moved something on a bulletin board and discovered a small calendar underneath. It was opened to March 2020.  March 2020, the month COVID-19 officially became a pandemic, the month calendars suddenly became irrelevant. In the space of a week, we went...

30 November, 2021

I have been watching the Harry Potter movies again. This is mostly because the internet has not been working at my house for the last week and a half (don’t get me started on the frustration of wrangling with the service provider) and the only...

29 November, 2021

ASK ALICE Dear Alice, A friend has recently asked me to be her health care agent.  I am inclined to say yes, but I want to find out more about what is involved.  There is a fair amount on the internet about how to choose a good...

29 November, 2021

ASK ALICE Your questions answered about Advance Care Planning This month's topic: More than one home: Do I need multiple ADs?   Dear Alice, I live part of the year in another state and part of the year in Vermont.  And even when I am living in Vermont, I spend significant...

28 October, 2021

From Jennie Reichman, Shop staff “You kids, get off my lawn!” Those words have become synonymous with jokes about differences between people of one generation (over 40ish) and another (under 25ish). Those of us in the first category either laugh and nod knowingly at those jokes,...

26 October, 2021
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