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By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
Recent news reports and events have reminded me that my husband and I are living in a parallel universe. We use a landline and we read print newspapers, which are delivered to our house daily.I have and use a cellphone, but my husband does not. He...
By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
Recently I decided I would face up to cleaning up my recipe collection. You know, those clippings and notes that most cooks accumulate over the years. My mother had a neat wooden box with handwritten notes on file cards. She would often include the...
By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
‘You’ll have to speak louder,” I remember saying to a nurse about my father. “He is quite deaf.” My father looked up, annoyed. “Hard of hearing,” he said.He was over 90, and in the hospital with congestive heart failure. His hearing loss had gradually...
By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
Have I mentioned that I read the obituaries in the Gazette every morning before I start my day? Does this sound depressing? I don’t find it so. It somehow anchors things for me.I can learn about people in my community and about how they or their...
By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
What did you do during the pandemic? Maybe the question is too optimistic. Is the pandemic over? I’ll leave the answer to the experts, but it definitely feels less ominous all around. Still, I think we can all recall those months of isolation and...
By MARIETTA PRITCHARD
Last July, I visited our new doctor for what I thought was an annual checkup. I brought with me an annoying problem I’d been having, and he made a referral for me to see a specialist, who has taken care of the problem. After that July visit — a...
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