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Author Biography
Rose Mary Clarke writes a weekly column about life experiences.
Rose Mary Clarke started writing columns for the Knightstown Banner when she was in high school. A graduate of Knightstown High School, Ball State and Indiana University, she taught French at Franklin Central High School and Howe High School. Her husband, daughter Victoria and she lived in Irvington for many years. She and Bill currently live in Warren Park.
She was a Realtor for over twenty years and returned to writing columns about twelve years ago. Her weekly column that also appears in the Weekly View is about life experiences — travel, nature, the arts and the funny/sad events of the past. She is an avid reader and enjoys writing, cooking and eating good food.
She has published a book of some of her columns that is called Ramblings: A Stroll Down Memory Lane with Henry David Thoreau.
Rose Mary Clarke passed away October 26, 2017.
Rose Mary Clarke’s Story Archive
Tender Loving Care
Many people are alive, well and happy that I didn’t become a nurse like my big sister. I’d under or over medicate them and jab them to a fare-thee-well. During ten days on the 5th floor of Building 2 of Community East, I was so weak from C. Diff that … Read More
Home For Christmas
I’ll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Christmas Eve will find me Where the love-light gleams I’ll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams — written in 1943 in honor of World War II troop. sung by Bing Crosby Ever since I was a child, … Read More
How to Cure the Christmas Blahs
Rose Mary is taking a break this week. This is a reprint of her column from Dec. 2009 The Lord Mayor . . . gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayors household should; and even the little taylor, who he had fined … Read More
Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris has many wonderful neighborhoods such as Monparnasse on the Left Bank and Monmartre and the Champs Elysée on the Right Bank. We like the Left Bank across the Seine and a short walk from Notre-Dame de Paris. Notre-Dame was built on a little island, the Ile de la Cité. … Read More
Vive La France!, Part 2
I wonder how the people whom we encountered in France are doing. Here are some of the stories that are stored in the trunks in the attic of my mind: Bill’s English aunt despised the French. When we visited her several years ago she blamed the Mad Cow Disease on … Read More