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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
All That Glitters is Not Gold
The “Gilded Age” of the 1890’s was an era of rapacious greed and obscene affluence. I see similarities with today when money — whether gained legally or illegally — is the primary focus for some people. Super-rich New Yorkers who built summer “cottages” in Newport, Rhode Island, make today’s rich … Read More
Lives That I Shall Never Live
Books give us entrée into the lives of others. I wouldn’t want to live like Anne la Bastille, the author of Woodswoman, who lived all alone in an isolated, tiny log cabin in the Adirondacks without electricity or modern plumbing. She had to haul water from the lake and chop … Read More
Sunrise . . . Sunset
Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears — Bock & Harnick, “Fiddler on the Roof” Sun Diary: This morning is one of those rare days when I stand midway between the Alpha and Omega — the beginning and the end … Read More
Hooked!
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
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