Audrey Mae Spencer https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Heather: Well, what have you been doing this week? Heather: What are the animals up to? Henry Luke Johnson Heather: What are you doing today? Heather: How are you today? H: How are you doing, Mother? Heather: We will work on that. Mother, when we all left home you were always working on good causes, such as a clean environment, child abuse prevention, better nutritious foods, cures for diseases, etc. Explain your flyer about one disease, CMT “Hope for a Cure”. Heather: Have you been back to the R.I. School of Design since you left as a young women? Heather: What are you doing now? Heather: How do you like the companion chair? Craig Evarone O’Keefe Heather: What are you doing this morning? Heather: What do you have the artistic display stand opened to? Heather: Did you draw Grampa (William J.B. Spencer) also? Heather: How are you doing? Heather: Did Dad? Heather: You really did give a lot of thought to our names. Two, Vaughn and Spencer, are totally English ancestry. Two, Douglas and Heather, have both Scottish and English names. Deardra is a book title as well as a movie. Crystal is a movie star and Dawn is one of the RISD students, whom you really didn’t know very well. She was not in your classes, but when you heard her name you loved it so. Heather: (Theo, Bill, Dad and Mother double dated during their courtship) Were you upset that Dad smoked? Heather: Hello, Mother. How are you doing? Heather: How is your new roommate? Heather: What are you feeling about Alpine now? Heather: Well, we have been talking almost an hour, so your hand is letting you know. What book are you reading now? Heather: Great! I’ll call you next week and I am looking forward to seeing you next month for the October 3rd gathering at Alpine. I love you, Mother. September 4, 2004, Closing date for conversations included in “Glimpses of the Past: Morning Conversations with Audrey” September 11, 2004, Beginning date for conversations included in the “Sequel” to “Glimpses of the Past: Morning Conversations with Audrey” Heather (visiting Audrey at Kent Regency): Mother, do you want the headpiece of your wheel chair pushed back? Heather visiting Audrey at Kent Regency Heather: What are you noticing on the wall behind your bed? (Deardra had just hung a beautifully circular framed picture of a stylish shoe) Date of conversations not accurately recorded by Heather) Heather: Hello Mother. (date of conversation not accurately recorded) Deardra and Heather drove Mother to visit Luane, Audrey’s brother’s grandchild. Luane lives in the family home where Mother lived from age 12 when her parents sold the farm and moved the family to the Coventry house. Audrey listened attentively as I am sure this home brings back many wonderful memories. Later that afternoon Audrey spoke clearly: Conversations Heather: (no connection) Heather: (no connection) Heather: Hello Mother. Heather: Yes, we had to get you a new phone. The other one decided to cut you off more than have you talk. (laughter) Is this photo phone just the same as the other one? Heather: That’s luxury living! (laughter) Douglas visiting Mother at Kent Regency: Douglas visiting Mother at Kent Regency asked Mother: “If there was anything in the world that you could do, what would it be?” Frank Roger Cahoon Kent Regency Nursing Home While Heather was visiting her mother at Kent Regency, Audrey says: Creative Writing Epilogue Sequel Home Heather: Well, how is the weather? Heather: What is the difference in the amount of snow today versus when you were a child on the farm over 80 years ago. Heather: Mother, what do you remember about the Mitchell Maternity Home where Vaughn, Deardra and I were born. Heather: Yes, Mother, I really messed up your plans because if I had been a boy, you would have had boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy. (Laughter) Heather: Did you work in the kitchen with your mother?