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Happily, A Student

By: Myra Tate

Choose something to study And suddenly Everything changes.   The most complex task Does not look so forbidding.  Everything changes.   Choose something to study That has always beckoned and Everything changes.   Make a commitment at last To be consistent  - to accept  The work, and everything changes.   Suddenly, what you have Struggled with for a lifetime Changes – and surprise –   So does everything else!

Mother's Day: The Mother-Daughter Bond

By: Sharon Nicolary

 I remember my favorite mother-daughter moment when I was little. My mother took me to see the movie Grease. I was so excited, I could hardly wait. I was nine years old and my mother was forty-four, yet we were like a couple of three-year-olds on Christmas morning. We both loved the movie, as much as we loved Swiss cheese and ham roll-ups. She told me all about her high school days, just like what I was watching on the big screen. Olivia Newton John was our favorite and her song, "I Honestly Love You," was the best thing we thought we had ever heard.  

Moving my folks

By: Caroline Boston

Dear Editor: Regarding your column “Moving the folks,” here is my story. Once the lease was signed authorizing me to move to a retirement community, I had one month to downsize from a two bedroom to a studio apartment. I immediately began to store newspapers, collect boxes and concentrate on movers.

Rain

By: Myra Tate

The heavy winter rain washes the street clean after the leaf-blowers have gone.   Still covered with oak, maple, and other desiccated leaves the short wintry grass takes on their fading browns and yellows.   I walk gingerly, knowing that wet leaves are slippery and a fall at my age would be dangerous.  I am glad to have made it safely inside.   The crepe-myrtle that graces my office window has shed its pink blossoms. Now there are tiny sparkling