Tag: Plainfield CT

• A Vacation Filled with Kind Strangers

  Last week Mim and I returned home from our third vacation of the year. We’re making up for the past 16 years of almost no vacations while we were doing assisted living in our home. This vacation had lessons for us to learn just as our earlier two vacations this year had. Our July vacation…

  Marian

  November 8, 2019

  Book Recommendations, bucket list, Nature, Reflections, Vacations

  Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Cleveland, fall colors, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, Indiana Dunes National Park, kind people, kind strangers, kindness, kindness of strangers, Lebanese restaurant, make someone’s day, Mike McIntyre, National Women’s Rights Historical Park, October vacation, paid for dinner, Penniless across America, Plainfield CT, random act of kindness, school security guard, Seneca Falls, Sturbridge Village, The Kindness of Strangers, timeshare, vacation, women’s movement

• Back to School – Adventures of a Former English Teacher

  

  Forty-five years ago I graduated from college as a freshly minted English teacher-to-be.  All I had to do to start teaching was find a job. Back in 1970, teaching jobs were not plentiful, but there were some to be found if you looked hard enough. I decided to look in New England. I guess I…

  Marian

  September 8, 2015

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  back to school, change in my life, Cindy Korth, Civilla Martin, Corvair, Danny Korth, English teacher, expressway signs, garden vegetables, God will take care of you, Hartford Connecticut, huge trunk, mill town, move to Connecticut, New England, payphone, Plainfield, plainfield connecticut, Plainfield CT, Plainfield High School, Pontiac, school district office, spring chickens, Stillman Martin, teaching job