Personal Update

I moved to Kendal at Ithaca, a continuing care community last summer.  My kids were worried about what would become of me when I ran out of money or got sick, so they put up the entrance fee.  I have an independent “cottage”, which is set up like a row of motel units, with front and back entrances. I’m about a quarter mile from the main building where I go for meals and mail. I was pretty dependent upon a rollator when I came here. During the first year of COVID I just sat in my recliner and forgot how to walk.  But I had 3 months of physical therapy here and am happy to be back on my feet. When the weather’s okay I can walk a mile and a half to the Ithaca Mall where there’s a Target and a good Mexican restaurant.

I moved to Ithaca NY in 2019 when my daughter and son-in-law retired here.  Brad had graduated from the Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine and they still had quite a few friends here.  I always question why people would leave their home towns and go somewhere far away to be near their kids. I guess it makes sense.  I never thought I would leave Cleveland, and I keep in touch.  I subscribed to MLB.com so I could watch all the Indians games. I get a daily Email, The Wake Up, with news from Cleveland and surrounding suburbs.  I know about the new mayor and Frank Jackson’s official portrait. Not happy with the baseball name change but grateful they’re staying in Cleveland.

My sister’s husband, Bill Moats, keeps in touch, but he’s the only classmate that does.  I have a friend Chester Andrews who graduated some time after us.  He has been the announcer for the Scots marching band since 1987. I know him from playing together in the New Horizons Band at Baldwin-Wallace in Berea.

Posted in on January 17, 2022.