When Growing Old Is a Blessing
In a NY Times article published on March 2, JESSICA BRUDER reviews the book entitled HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE: Lessons From a Year…
At This Staten Island Restaurant, a Kitchen Run by Grandmas
Just inside the entrance to an Italian restaurant on a recent afternoon in the historic St. George neighborhood on Staten Island, the smell of soy and ponzu masked that of onions and garlic.
The source? A Japanese woman had taken over the kitchen to make gyoza and shrimp dumpling soup.
What is the Perfect Age?
The Wall Street Journal asks, are your best years ahead of you or behind you?
Judy Mayotte’s Many Paths in Pursuit of a Purpose-Driven Life
Judy Mayotte is proving that it’s never too late to learn something new. After a long and distinguished career as an author, humanitarian, theologian,…
Sex and the Senior Center
In this short video segment, James Hamblin, editor at The Atlantic, interviews Arlene Hayman, author of Scary Old Sex. James also ventures to the senior…
Can old age be as exciting as youth?
What is the secret to living large in old age? This week Dateline meets a squad of octogenerian Japanese cheerleaders and a famous TV writer challenging assumptions about people in their 90s.
‘They said I was too old to work at a startup’ – women on ageism in tech
In a sector that values youth, female tech leaders share their experiences of working in the industry
He’s spent nearly 7 decades at The San Francisco Chronicle. This year, at 98, he’s retiring.
David Perlman was born in 1918 — a decade before the discovery of penicillin and the Big Bang Theory.
Pat Gallant-Charette, 66, takes 18 hours to swim across English Channel
A 66-year-old from the United States has become the oldest woman to swim across the English Channel.
Pat Gallant-Charette battled lower-than-expected water temperatures, difficulty keeping her food down and a jellyfish sting on her face. She wrote on her blog that she also saw a large dorsal fin that turned out to be a sunfish, not a shark.