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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
‘Tis Better to Light a Single Candle
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
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
Once Upon a Christmas
Though summer turns to winter And the present disappears The laughter we were glad to share Will echo through the years When other nights and other days May find us gone our separate ways We will have these moments to remember The Four Lads — 1955 — the year I … Read More
Trying to Make Sense of Chaos
“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
It’s Time to Clean Out the Attic
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. —William Ernest Henley, “Invictis” I occasionally correspond by e-mail with John Board, one of my Ball State College chums whom I haven’t seen … Read More