Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Explorations: A Great Man and a Nobody

May 16, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right . . . “ — Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s A Team of Rivals about Lincoln and his cabinet and found parallels between him and my … Read More

Explorations: In Search of an Invisible Woman, Part 2

May 9, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I had e-mails from people with whom last week’s column about my mother resonated. As I have often written, “I am you, and you are me.” Everyone has a mother! Of course, there have been mothers who were horrible, abusive individuals. In mythology, the dreadful Medea who murdered her children … Read More

Explorations: In Search of an Invisible Woman

May 2, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

For all the dinners are cooked, the plates and cups washed; the children set to school and gone out into the world. Nothing remains of it all. All has vanished. No biography or history has a word to say about it. And the novels, without meaning to, invariably lie. Virginia … Read More

An Exploration I’d Rather Postpone!

April 25, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Life is just a bowl of cherries. Don’t take it serious; life’s so mysterious. You work, you save, you worry so, But you can’t take your dough when you go, go, go. So keep repeating it’s the berries. The strongest oak must fall, The sweet things in life, to you … Read More

Spring Fancies

April 18, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle (dove) is heard in our land . . . “ The Bible’s “The Song of Solomon” is … Read More