Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Virtual People

September 3, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Our friend, Jean, read To Kill a Mockingbird when she was in high school. She won’t read Harper Lee’s recently published Go Send a Watchman because of its portrayal of Atticus Finch. Call me an old curmudgeon,  but Atticus was always a hero of mine.  In this day and age … Read More

I’ve Become Older, But No Bolder

August 27, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will be met with a success unexpected. — Henry David Thoreau Anne La Bastille could have lived anywhere, but she deliberately chose to fulfill her dream, regardless of difficulties and discomfort. She learned to use all kinds of tools … Read More

Living Simply or Simply Living?

August 20, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling … Read More

Living Unsimply

August 13, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

My chum, John Board, wrote, “I have found that the easiest way to get rid of stuff is to move, not a garage sale.  When we moved two years ago, thinking stopped; emotions were quenched; and loads and loads of stuff went either to our sons, The Good Samaritan, or … Read More

Memories For Sale

August 6, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust. How else could I have a furnished house? I … Read More