It isn’t often you get to meet someone living in your backyard who has also lived through both World Wars.
Fern Hadley, who celebrated her 101st birthday Dec. 28, is also the oldest resident at Regal Healthcare Center in Hockessin.
Here’s something that might keep you awake at night: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy drivers account for more than 100,000 crashes each year, including more than 1,500 fatalities.
Four years ago, Sunrise Senior Living planned to build an Assisted Living and Retirement Community on the corner of Limestone Road and Paper Mill Road in Hockessin. But with the economic downturn, Sunrise backed out of the project in 2009 andgave its entire development package, including all drawings and engineering work, to the property owners, the Naudain and Malloy families. Now, the families have entered into an agreement with Vantage Point, a retirement living community planner headquartered in Chester County, Pa.
Bill rushed outside, and off in the distance was Pearl Harbor. Japanese aircraft were zoning in on their targets, bombs were dropping and fireballs and thick, black smoke were rising into the air. It was all happening so fast.
Mildred Fertig, a resident at Rockland Place, has enjoyed painting since she was very young. But now, with late stage dementia, her memories of one of her favorite past times seemed long gone.
That was until Donna Teleis, a certified Art Without Boundaries therapist brought the innovative program to Rockland in June of 2011.
When men get old, they try to bring new life to old things. Whether it is restoring Model T cars or Chris-Craft speed boats, there comes a time when men seem driven by some Paleolithic instinct to recreate their youth and honor their past.
I love Christmas music. The whole “chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open-fire-Jack-Frost-nipping-at-your- nose” thing. The first item I pull out of my Christmas closet the day after Thanksgiving is my box of Christmas CDs. All my old — and new — favorites are there.
Then there was the referral to some advice on growing older from Will Rogers that is a lot more truth than fiction. To wit: Eventually, you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. (I’m there.) The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
The BTL Foundation offered over 110 Turkeys along with baskets of other Thanksgiving staples to needy families at the Rose Hill Community Center in New Castle last month.
Any abandoned and useless automobiles were stripped of all the upholstery and anything not metal and hauled off to the scrap yard, adjoining the rail lines to be shipped to Detroit for manufacturing of the war goods. It was basically a community effort by just about everyone in every city and town in America, and we went to war. It was a time I will never forget.
I am enclosing a photograph of a small chocolate pot (I think) with a "Moby Dick" pattern by Rockwell Kent. It was made by Vernon Kilns. It is 5.5 inches tall with dark blue lines and a sailboat depicted on the front.
Without making too much of a to-do about it, by this time next week, I will have passed one of life’s quasi-significant mileposts. I, you see, am about to observe my Diamond Jubilee. Or, as daughter Susie calls it, my Semi-Sesquicentennial.
It’s hard to say goodbye to “The Land of Later On,” an afterlife that’s “infinite in space and time” and yet fetchingly intimate and affecting. Gloucester author Anthony Weller’s short novel about a bewildering but intriguing life after death is a feat of imagination and writing.
Do parallel universes exist? And if they do, is my credit rating always the same? If there are lots and lots of universes, though, there must be lots and lots of variations. Some would be slight, like a universe where the only difference is Wednesday is spelled without the first “d.”
When Abraham and Mary Lincoln moved into the White House in March of 1861, there wasn’t enough matching china to have a dinner for even a dozen guests.
All I want for Christmas is a stun gun. The gift is priced at $49.99, but for stocking stuffers, there also is a $24.99 “palm-sized 350-volt stun gun” that also “will take ’em down.” Peace and joy to you and yours this Christmas season.
All bisques are creamy soups, but not all contain seafood. A popular alternative uses vegetables. It’s a perfect starter to a major meal or a main course for lunch.
White Clay Creek State Park held their tenth annual Veteran’s Day Storytelling and Apple Pie Social at the Judge Morris Estate on Sunday, Nov. 6. Approximately 40 people attended this year’s event, which included speeches from four different veterans.
The bad news: Supermarket food prices are rising 4 to 5 percent this year and are expected to go up another 3 to 4 percent in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. The good news: There are lots of ways to save on your grocery bill.
I actually liked pulling KP in the Army. And, no, I wasn’t on drugs. I liked the sound of a well-oiled Army kitchen, the camaraderie of the sergeant in charge, the knowledge things cannot get any worse than they are, so enjoy.
