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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
Explorations: In Search of an Invisible Woman
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!
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
“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
Explorations — Finding Buttered Toast
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
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