For families in palliative or hospice care, PorchTalk is free. Up to three full chapters of your loved one's stories — written in their words, kept in their own voice — and your family keeps every word and every recording, forever. No card. No strings. Nothing to cancel, ever.
There is no clock on the porch. Your storyteller calls when they feel up to it, talks as long or as briefly as they like, and a one-minute visit gets the same warm goodbye as an hour. If calling is hard, a son or daughter can dial and hold the phone on speaker at the bedside — that counts as a porch visit too, and a fine one.
One good visit is enough. Even ten minutes — a favorite story, a piece of advice, the thing they always say — becomes a keepsake your family will reach for again and again. Anything they'd rather keep private, they just say "seal it," and it stays between them and the porch.