Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Memories For Sale

July 30, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . Simplify, simplify, simplify!” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden Bill and I are packrats who follow our mothers’ … Read More

Two Small-Town Girls are Surprised by Life in the City

July 23, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

In memory of Wilbur and Lois Frazier and Earl and Ruth Gard “Every man beareth within himself the entire human condition.” —Michel de Montaigne During Wanda’s and my growing-up years in Knightstown there was a code of civility and kindness that insulated us from the outside world. Being in and … Read More

Two Small-Town Girls Encounter Life in the City, Part 1

July 16, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

You’ve got to be taught/To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught/From year to year, It’s got to be drummed/In your dear little ear You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid/ Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin … Read More

The Seasons of Our Growing Up, Part 3

July 9, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

My nephew, John Jones, who is seven years younger than I compared our childhood with that of his grandchildren: Reality vs. virtuality is the main difference. Almost all of our games were played in the “real” world.  Kick the can requires real kids kicking a real can on a real … Read More

The Seasons of Our Growing Up, Part 2

July 2, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The tastes of childhood: bread and butter with sugar on it . . . homemade lemonade . . . Mother’s strawberry pie. . . watermelon which could be had only in summer . . . The sounds of Summer: The strawberry man singing out “Strawberries, Straw BERRIES” as he came … Read More