Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Get a Life! Part 2

August 11, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Henry David Thoreau wrote in the chapter in Walden entitled “Where I lived and what I lived for,” “Our life is frittered away by detail . . . I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . “ Montaigne, … Read More

Get a Life!

August 4, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“The true harvest of my daily life is as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow that I have clutched.” Aren’t those lovely words? I have frequently said that Henry David Thoreau, the author of Walden, … Read More

Rites of Passage

July 28, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) . . . ” Bill and I have become great grandparents! The years have sped by so that I didn’t realize how old we’ve become. The birth of Adalyn Grey Millhouse, daughter of grandson Chris and his wife … Read More

From the Earth to the Stars, Part 3

July 21, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed . … Read More

Fourth of July, Part 2

July 14, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” —Charles A. Beard, quoted in the masthead of the “Knightstown … Read More