Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

What’s For Dinner?, Part 2

August 1, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

One’s life resembles a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. However, you never have a complete picture of it to use as a guide because life isn’t static and cannot be contained in a box. Our lives would contain millions of pieces if we broke them down into their components. Unlike a jigsaw … Read More

Food Wars

July 25, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I am you, and you are me; and we are everyone. I asked readers to share their best and worst food memories. It’s amazing to see how many people of different generations who don’t know each other write about identical memories. Niece Ginger Jones wrote, “Memories. Yikes. What a mixed … Read More

What’s For Dinner?

July 18, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Each memory is like a paper flower stored up in a magician’s sleeve: Invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next. I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time, and like those paper flowers, once they’ve been let loose in the world, the memories are … Read More

Strawberries!

July 11, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

We ate according to the seasons when I was a girl. Airplanes didn’t whisk fresh fruit and vegetables to Indiana from more tropical climates such as Florida, California and Latin America. We Hoosiers could have fresh green beans, corn on the cob, cucumbers, and watermelon only in the summer. The … Read More

The Ties That Bind

June 27, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Tenacity, thy name is Vicki! If I were to devise a coat of arms for my daughter, it would consist of an inquiring eye examining some musty, dusty, antique tome of old deeds or other genealogical esoterica and have a tilting tombstone for its background. Nothing stops a genealogical sleuth … Read More