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An Active, Independent 55+ Community of Owners in Minneapolis
 

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Lydia Pinkham’s Pink Period Pills

Rick Weber Butch lived in a dusty tan stucco house set back to the south from the corner of First Avenue and Ninth Street. In the next house east, a tiny asphalt side-shingled shack nearly hidden by three evergreens, lived Mr. Roberts and he “wasn’t right” as our parents would say when they whispered for […] Read more

Life in a Rear View Mirror*

by Dick Juhl As I get older, I sometimes think I am much like an old car or an old truck. You will know what I mean if you think about it. My eyes (headlights) do not see too well, so the light seems dimmer than when I was younger. Neuropathy makes my feet rather […] Read more

Breaking With “The Quiet-in-the-Land” Stereotype of Mennonites

by Steve Clemens, Becketwood Midweek Gathering Talk 1/31/24 People who followed a former Roman Catholic priest, Menno Simons, and were part of the movement referred to as the Radical Reformation were called Mennonites. In the early 1500s as Martin Luther and John Calvin and others were breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church, a group […] Read more

Hello, Susan

Everyone knows somebody who is transgender – They just don’t know who they are. By Mark Anderson   I am a resident of Becketwood who is transgender. You may have seen me coming or going as Susan and have wondered what that was all about. Most of you know me as Mark. A few of […] Read more

My Eighteenth Birthday

  By Elaine Churchill   December 7, 1941, was my 18th birthday. I was a senior in high school when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that Sunday. It was morning and we were getting ready for church. My dad said, “Turn on the radio to get the temperature.” Instead of the weather, we kept hearing […] Read more

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