Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Hooked!

January 31, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Bill sometimes finds that a column is too melancholy. (Poor Bill! When we run into people whom he hasn’t met they say, “No need to introduce Bill. We already know him from your columns!”) Mel Tormé, nicknamed “the velvet fog,” wrote “The Christmas Song” about chestnuts roasting on an open … Read More

Trying to Last Through the Night

January 24, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

My candle burns at both ends— It will not last the night. But ah my foes and oh my friends, It gives a lovely light. — Edna St. Vincent Millay, “First Fig” 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most popular poets of her generation. … Read More

‘Tis Better to Light a Single Candle

January 17, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Shakespeare? Eleanor Roosevelt? We’ve packed away our Christmas pretties, turned the leftover turkey and dressing into frozen dinners that will warm us on cold evenings, boiled up the carcass for yummy turkey and rice soup, and eaten all the cookies. However, thoughts about Christmas still keep popping into my mind … Read More

Paying the Piper

January 9, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The party’s over. It’s time to call it a day. They’ve burst your pretty balloon And taken the moon away. It’s time to wind up the masquerade. Just make your mind up, the piper must be paid. — “The Party’s Over,” Words by Comden and Green, music by Jule Stein, … Read More

Trying to Make Sense of Chaos

December 7, 2012 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings.” — ­Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The original title for these columns is “Ramblings,” and this one may seem like a rambling par excellence. To coin a … Read More