From Christian Science Monitor writer Stacy Teicher Khadaroo: My lasting memories of Marjorie will always be her smile, the warm and kind laughter that often accompanied it, and her strong example of living the true spirit of Christian Science. I first knew her mainly by phone and by the stories she filed when I was one of the Learning section editors and she was a New York-based writer for The Christian Science Monitor. When she moved to Boston it was such a joy to work more closely with her, and later she became one of the editors who shepherded my stories along as I took on an education reporting role. The Learning section was a bastion of great collaboration, where I got to learn from Marjorie and other wonderful Monitor veterans. Then we spent several years together as fellow branch church members and residents of Jamaica Plain. Everyone in that church was like family to me – and it was not easy to say goodbye when I married and moved to New Hampshire to start another family. Since I work remotely, I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing Marjorie much in recent years. But we had a sweet email exchange this past spring. When I asked about her grandchildren, we swapped stories about their wild and inspiring imaginations. I told her about how my son and his close friends had invented a creature that they liked to draw, imitate, and use as an excuse for some silly, odd behavior. She told me about how one of her grandkids had assigned everyone names based on the planets. “I have to be OK with the fact that John is the Sun (center of the solar system) and I am Neptune (the most distant and unknown planet),” she wrote with her typical sense of humor. “But at least I'm not an asteroid,” she concluded. She may be distant to our material sense of things, but her sweet and perfect spiritual individuality lives on and remains ever so close.