Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

The Ties That Bind

June 20, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The day of my beloved sister Christine’s funeral, I was overwhelmed with grief and a sense of finality and loss that nothing could heal. Then came a total shift in the physical and emotional landscapes. Vicki had come down from Angola and wanted to do some genealogical sleuthing about my … Read More

Memories From the Attics of Our Minds

June 13, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten . … Read More

The Chain of Recollection

June 6, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell . . . remain poised a long time . . . and bear in the tiny drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. I have frequently … Read More

The Sounds of May

May 30, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Those April showers that come your way They bring the flowers that bloom in May. So if it’s raining, have no regrets. It isn’t raining rain, you know— It’s raining violets. And when you see clouds upon the hills You soon will see crowds of daffodils . . . — … Read More

Mother’s Day Redux

May 23, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Vicki, Bill and I fell to reminiscing about the irritating and/or funny things that parents put up with: Babies get into their diapers while they’re supposed to be napping and smear dung over everything that they can reach. . . Kids give each other horrible haircuts . . . They … Read More