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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
The Chain of Recollection
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
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
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
Explorations: A Great Man and a Nobody
“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
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