Memories of Elementary Book Folding
I do book folding. Despite the name, it’s actually the pages of books that get folded. I fold old books — one page at a time, two folds...
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Martha Rasche
- Sep 16, 2019
- 2 min
Remembering Mary
One of my first Life Stories clients, Mary, died last month. She was 94. Her father had been a sharecropper in Kentucky, and soon after I...
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Martha Rasche
- Jul 23, 2019
- 1 min
Details Make the Story
Alice and Edwin participated in my most recent Life Stories class. Alice had a career as a beautician. In her beauty shop, she had a Coke...
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Martha Rasche
- May 24, 2019
- 1 min
2 Very Short Stories
Six weeks before Judy was born, her father died in a car accident. So Judy and her mother moved in with her mother’s parents, Judy’s...
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Martha Rasche
- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
Go Fly a Kite. Literally.
His days of making and flying kites with the neighborhood boys took place more than 70 years ago, but to hear Paul describe it during a...
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Martha Rasche
- Mar 31, 2019
- 1 min
A Quote
"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no...
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Martha Rasche
- Feb 19, 2019
- 1 min
Shared Experiences Lead to Shared Stories
This past Saturday I ran into a client whose life stories I completed writing early last year. Bernice, who became a widow during the...
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Martha Rasche
- Jan 28, 2019
- 1 min
Remembering Their Mothers
Mary was 7 when her mother died. Don was 8 when his died. Wilma was 12. Katharine was 17 when her mom died of lung cancer and leukemia...
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Martha Rasche
- Dec 1, 2018
- 1 min
If Not Now, When?
Lou died last week. I am still in disbelief. After I wrote about her in a blog on Oct. 16 and linked it to my Facebook page, she...
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Martha Rasche
- Oct 16, 2018
- 2 min
Chemotherapy with A Side of Life Stories
In February, a woman from a neighboring town learned about my Life Stories classes and immediately expressed a strong interest in taking...
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Martha Rasche
- Aug 21, 2018
- 1 min
I Want to Know More
I am gearing up for fall Life Stories classes. This means I have times and locations set, and now I go through my list of prospective...
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Martha Rasche
- Jul 26, 2018
- 1 min
A Quote
“Your heartache is someone else’s hope. If you make it through, somebody else is going to make it through. Tell your story.” — Kim...
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Martha Rasche
- Jun 26, 2018
- 1 min
Opportunities Lost
In early spring I committed to working on writing the life stories of an 89-year-old Indianapolis man. His relatives who were hiring...
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Martha Rasche
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
Days of Moonshine
My “Remember When…?” discussion group at a local nursing home wanted to talk about moonshine last month. Bootlegging in the middle of the...
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Martha Rasche
- Jan 8, 2018
- 1 min
A Quote
“Like a friend said, it feels like a library burns down every time an elder dies.” — Jim Northrup, “Anishinaabe Syndicated” #writing
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Martha Rasche
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
The Payoff
A few weeks ago I met one of my Life Stories participants at a local printer and handed over a stick drive with her stories on it. The...
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Martha Rasche
- Sep 8, 2017
- 1 min
Our Stories Best Survive Us in Writing
“I wish I’d have listened more,” my co-worker said, referring to her father’s oral stories about his military service during World War...
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Martha Rasche
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
What I Wore
These days find me sorting donations at the local St. Vincent de Paul store, and one day last week I came upon a large grocery bag filled...
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Martha Rasche
- Jul 4, 2017
- 1 min
A Quote
“The greatest asset any old person has is his or her life experience. When you have the opportunity to interact with an old person, you...
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Martha Rasche
- Jun 5, 2017
- 1 min
Beatle Mania
After taking a nine-week Life Stories class, my groups continue meeting for six monthly follow-ups to share stories they have newly...
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