Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Explorations — Finding Buttered Toast

April 11, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I know it’s hard to be reconciled not everything is exactly the way it ought to be but please turn around and step into the future leave memories behind enter the land of hope — Zbignief Herbert When our lives change due to tragedy, declining health or reversals it’s difficult … Read More

Explorations: Memories

April 4, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Spring ads featuring colorful, sleeveless frocks similar to those I wore when I was in high school and college have beckoned me away from a column about people who found buttered toast and into a byway. Now I’m too old and plump to wear those fashions! Ditto for today’s high … Read More

Explorations Along the Journey

March 28, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

As you set out for Ithaca hope that your road is a long one, full of adventures, full of discovery . . . Hope your road is a long one . . . May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you’re seeing … Read More

Explorations

March 21, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Rather than relying on my unreliable memory, I should have looked up Daniel Day Lewis who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Lincoln. I wrote that he starred in No Country for Old Men. Not so, he starred in the equally gruesome There Will Be Blood, according to an … Read More

Other Realities

March 14, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

On the last day of February, we saw the first harbinger of spring, a robin. Also, we were pleased when a pair of blue jays arrived to steal Squirrelie’s peanuts. During the West Nile epidemic, our jays disappeared, and we missed them. “Jay, jay, jay!” they shrieked when we raised … Read More