She went to nursing school at the University of Maine—Orono, shortly after WWII, where she met my dad on a blind date just days before graduation (she was engaged to someone else at the time). They married six weeks later and were together for 52 years before she died at 74 from lun...
Heaven forbid, if you hadn’t learned your bible, which was the most important task. And I’m not talking one verse, two verses – it was felt the benefit of learning several verses by heart would be… character building. I’m not sure that it necessarily had that effect. Q: Were yo...
I can easily see that I was not living “conscious of [my]self as an individual” when I thought I needed to be married in order to be acceptable – acceptable to whom? Or when, because I thought others would find my musical abilities to be inadequate, I forsook what I really wanted...