Life Choices | Seniors | teachers | veterans
Early Career…Middle Career…Final (I Think) Career
The big money career (real estate) never fulfilled my need, so I left at the top of my game….
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Colleen Kelly Mellor and “View from 80+”
Some of you know me as a feature story writer and monthly columnist (in the Op-Ed’s) for the Prov Journal. To some, I’m your neighbor who lived in Cranston (Edgewood) and now lives in Warwick (Cowesett). Some among you had me as teacher in Park View, Hugh B. Bain, or Cranston East. If you were…
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What Connects Me to This Veteran Hero
***For Veterans’ Day, I reprise 2 front pg stories I wrote for the Prov Journal…. Colonel Fredric Mellor: Rhode Island’s 1st Casualty of the Viet Nam War I didn’t really know Fred. But, as his brother Daniel’s widow, I became the lone caretaker for something Fred valued greatly: His Arnold Palmer “Classic” golf clubs in the…
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Using Humor in My Caregiver “Lessons” …
My life is ever-evolving. At almost 80 years old, I’m a comedian. That’s right…I make audiences laugh. Right through the tough topic I’m talking about—Alzheimer’s—the disease that’s been the uninvited guest in my husband’s and my life for the past 15+ years. Here’s how my speaking goes…. Following the event host’s intro, I gingerly go…
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Hitting My Stride as Caregiver to Caregivers
It’ll be my first really big speaking venue. Masonicare, a 245 unit senior living community in that lovely seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, has commissioned me to speak before their residents who range from independent living, to assisted living and memory care. How’d they hear about the woman (me) who tells how to survive and…
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Colleen Kelly Mellor: Guest Speaker
Paul and Colleen at Colt Park, Bristol
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The Critics Have Spoken…
David Quiroa, Exec. Director of Cranston Dept of Senior Services says: “On Tuesday, September 24th in collaboration with the Cranston Public Library and Blue Cross Blue Shield of R.I. we were honored to host a local author, Colleen Kelly Mellor. I have to say that this presentation by Ms. Mellor has been by far the most…
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Home Life | Op-Ed | Recent Posts | Relocation
Why Did We Return to RI, After Living in the South?
They (the naysayers, that is) can say what they wish about Rhode Island but we who have traveled and lived elsewhere know our little state is where we want to be…for perpetuity (my ashes will be tossed—elegantly, I hope, off Rhode Island waters, while he’ll be ceremoniously interred in Veterans’ Cemetery.) For many years, we’ve…
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Self-Selling Your Home?-There’s a Name for That (Besides Crazy!)
Last week I was in a small supermarket (oxymoron?) in Wickford, Rhode Island, when a young woman called out: “Hello, Colleen…I’m Kerry (last name I omit). You helped my husband and me buy a home some years ago.” We hugged and chatted; she told me they’d sold that home and bought a new one in…
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Boomerrrang and I Are on TV and I Gotta Say: I Loved It!!
Happy Thanksgiving, all….and I’d just like to say: In recent years, I have many Rhode Islanders to thank, for what’s happening in my life. First, I thank Providence Journal Vice-President and Editorial page editor, Ed Achorn, for running my columns, monthly. In these, I hoped to give the public a window on the world of…
