Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Granny’s Sewing Basket

November 24, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I … Read More

The Octobers of Yesteryear, Part 4

November 17, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Ain’t God good to Indiana? Folks, a feller never knows Just how close he is to Eden Till, sometime, he ups an’ goes Seekin’ fairer, greener pastures Than he has right here at home . . . Ain’t God good to Indiana? Other spots may look as fair, But they … Read More

The Octobers of Yesteryear, Indian Summer

November 10, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

From his pipe the smoke ascending Filled the sky with haze and vapor, Filled the air with dreamy softness, Touched the rugged hills with smoothness, Brought the tender Indian Summer . . . — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh dear! Bill just read this and said, “Rather than ‘native American,’ you … Read More

The Halloweens of Yesteryear, Part 2

November 3, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn, And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn; . . . The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed; The hosses in theyr stalls below—the clover over-head!— O, it sets my hart a-clickin’ … Read More

The Halloweens of Yesteryear: Part 1

October 27, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Onc’t they was a little boy wouldn’t say his prayers— An’ when he went to bed at night, away up stairs, His mammy heard him holler, an’ his daddy heard him bawl, An’ when they turned the kivvers down he wasn’t there at all! An’ they seeked him in the … Read More