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Martha Rasche
Apr 22, 20151 min read
"We're Authors"
My Life Stories group continues to get together monthly to socialize and share more stories. I joined the group this morning at the local...
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Martha Rasche
Feb 1, 20151 min read
My mother, a lifetime of serving others
At age 88, my mom received the annual Celestine Park Distinguished Service Award this weekend. That reminded me of a story she told me...
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Martha Rasche
Jan 27, 20151 min read
2 Vietnam veterans, 45 years later
We are about halfway through the class I am leading at the Habig Center in Jasper. Each of the nine sessions is to be an hour long. I...
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Martha Rasche
Dec 15, 20141 min read
Remembering those who left us way too early
We completed another Life Stories class last week. As always, I asked the "graduates" to share anything they wanted from what they had...
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Martha Rasche
Dec 3, 20141 min read
Rehabilitation on the side
I have two Life Stories classes going on. Of the four women in the room during one recent session, three of their fathers had worked for...
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Martha Rasche
Oct 7, 20141 min read
Another reason to write your story
A 95-year-old woman who wrote her life story with me shared the story with her family. Her son, who is a doctor, pointed out that she...
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Martha Rasche
Oct 2, 20141 min read
Accepting change
On the day before her home was going to be auctioned last month, 90-year-old Helen said she was OK with the impending sale “because I...
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Martha Rasche
Sep 25, 20141 min read
Knowing your priorities
On a bright sunny day in August 2014, an 87-year-old woman sits at a small table in her room at a Jasper nursing home and jots notes on a...
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Martha Rasche
Sep 3, 20141 min read
Amazing Grace
Some of the questions asked during a recent class referred to memberships, including church affiliations from childhood. One octogenarian...
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Martha Rasche
Aug 28, 20141 min read
Sheet of paper not handy? Write your story on a bedsheet instead
Writer Elisabetta Povoledo had a story in The New York Times last week about the National Diary Archives Foundation in Pieve Santo...
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Martha Rasche
Aug 20, 20141 min read
Telling a story without words
I think I'd recognize these hands — never idle — anywhere. The beautiful and telling wrinkles, the raised veins so close to the surface...
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Martha Rasche
Aug 14, 20141 min read
Blue suede shoes and other notes
When senior citizens start talking about their lives as young adults, the stories get really interesting. I find out how they met their...
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Martha Rasche
Jul 8, 20141 min read
Your story is worth writing, and sharing
As part of the "graduation" of the Life Stories class at St. Charles Health Campus yesterday, each of the participants shared part of her...
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Martha Rasche
Jun 16, 20141 min read
A class open to the public
My next Life Stories class will be open to the public. It will start in July and will be held on Friday afternoons at Brookside Village...
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Martha Rasche
Jun 11, 20141 min read
Your unique handwriting
When this particular round of Life Stories writing comes to an end in another month or so, I'll likely type the stories that these women...
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Martha Rasche
Jun 6, 20141 min read
"People like you"
I stopped by the nursing home today to work one-on-one with some of my "students." I paid impromptu visits to a couple of others to see...
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Martha Rasche
Jun 3, 20141 min read
Missing "some school"
After a handful of weekly sessions with half-a-dozen women (most are in their 80s; one is in her mid-90s) whom I am helping to write...
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