Short Stories Can Say a Lot
Sometimes the shortest stories are the most memorable. Two things from the funeral I attended recently have stayed with me. The minister...
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Martha Rasche
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Dear High School Graduate
Congratulations! Some of you already have started full-time jobs and others of you are looking forward to beginning college in the fall....
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Martha Rasche
- May 30
- 1 min
Family History Up in the Air
A local woman turned 100 this month and celebrated by taking a plane ride from the county airport. I caught her picture on a TV news...
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Martha Rasche
- Mar 31
- 1 min
A Quote
"There is a reason the word history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life." -- Jodi Picoult's "The Storyteller"
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Martha Rasche
- Jan 23
- 2 min
A Matter of My Heart
Once each on Jan. 13 and 14, I noticed my heart beating incredibly fast. Each event passed, and I went on as normal. By the second night...
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Martha Rasche
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
In Appreciation for My Sisters
I am the sixth of nine children. When I was in the third grade, all of my four older sisters went away to school; three were in college...
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Martha Rasche
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
20 Years of Joy
This month finds me celebrating a milestone anniversary as a Stampin’ Up! Independent demonstrator. Stampin’ Up! is a papercraft company...
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Martha Rasche
- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
Stories from my Harmonica Teacher
I picked up another bound copy of life stories from the printer earlier this month. This time the stories are of my 97-year-old harmonica...
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Martha Rasche
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
Here Are Your Evening Plans
If you don’t have very important plans for 9 o’clock (Eastern time) tonight, I urge you to watch the PBS documentary about the mental...
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Martha Rasche
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
‘God bless you. Good night.’
As a child, my bedtime ritual — after brushing my teeth in the only bathroom our family of 11 had — started by dipping the fingers of my...
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Martha Rasche
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
John the Storyteller
When I visit with my sister Barb and her husband, John, it never takes long for John to get into storytelling mode. He grew up in French...
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Martha Rasche
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
‘Stories in Stone’
During our recent icy weather, with my work at a local thrift store canceled, I spent time putting together the scrapbook of my September...
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Martha Rasche
- Dec 25, 2021
- 2 min
Others’ Christmas Memories
I recently came across some notes I took a few years ago during some “Remember When” discussion groups I led. They are just too good not...
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Martha Rasche
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Storytime with Mom
My 95-year-old mother has resided in a nursing home for three months, and my siblings and I are all finding new ways to make the most of...
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Martha Rasche
- Sep 20, 2021
- 1 min
A Taste of Fall
Three of my sisters and I went on a bus trip to Vermont last week. Another quartet of sisters also was along, as were multiple other...
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Martha Rasche
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
A Quote
“Within their pages, books contain the wisdom of the people who wrote them. Books never lose their memory.” — Professor Morgenstern in...
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Martha Rasche
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Time With My Father
My father died 25 years ago today. Most of this blog, which started out as a column for the Herald for Father’s Day 2001 and has since...
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Martha Rasche
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
Change of Address Prompts Memories
My hometown newspaper, where I spent nearly 20 years of workdays, moved from a two-story, red-brick building dating to the 1930s into...
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Martha Rasche
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Remember the Time...
Remember the time my nieces Ella, Grace and Sarah attended the father-daughter Girl Scout dance and walked into the fortune-teller’s tent...
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Martha Rasche
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
A Quote
“Storytelling is an art in the mountains, a way of transmitting history, culture, and shared experience from generation to generation.“...
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