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A TED Talk on Preparing for the Inevitable

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Home & FamilyWhen the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference began in 1984, the Los Angeles Times called it “an obscure gathering of engineers, theorists and artists.” But in the nearly three decades since then, TED has morphed into a series of mind-expanding showcases staged in several countries that attract scores of celebrity visionaries, ranging from physicist Steven Hawking and neurologist Oliver Sacks to former President Bill Clinton and rock stars Bono and Peter Gabriel. Better yet, the nonprofit Sapling Foundation, which stages the …

All the Lonely People

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeI received word the other day that a long-time acquaintance had died. We had worked together in the beginning years of my newspaper career, and while we hadn’t been that close, he nonetheless had represented a link in a circle of friends that was growing smaller every year. I was losing my history. We were a hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking, fun-loving bunch back then, not eating right or exercising or generally taking care of ourselves. Hell, we were in our 30s and …

Living Longer Than Ever: Is That a Good Thing?

Posted on 03/14/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthCHICAGO — The good news: We’re living longer than ever. The bad news: We’re living longer than ever. In an oversimplified way, that was the message from Laura Carstensen, Ph.D., director of Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, in her remarks to this year’s Aging in America Conference here, sponsored by the American Society on Aging. Carstensen, a well-known researcher who delights in debunking stereotypes of older adults, had less of the expected  “older is better” happy talk, and more of …

What Happens When Your Soulmate of 79 Years Dies?

Posted on 11/2/2012 by | Home & Family blogger | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsIt was a love that was going to last forever. Perhaps it didn’t last “forever” but it did run 79 years. We took note when we saw that Theresa Faiss, wife of a former Nevada state senator died earlier this week at the age of 97. Faiss and her husband Wilbur operated businesses around the Las Vegas area for more than 60 years, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. They even had a school named after them. Earlier this year …

Can’t Help Falling in Love with Elvis, 35 Years Later

Posted on 08/15/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

EntertainmentAs usual, my sister Lynda had to go and ruin everything. August 16, 1977, had started off just fine. Kindergarten was still a week away. My father had a rare day off from the Memphis Police homicide unit. And we were moving into our new home, the suburban “upstairs-downstairs” house I had always wanted. I was bumping on my butt down those newly-carpeted dream stairs when Lynda came galloping over me with the news she’d just heard on the radio: …

A Forever Fan Wants Your Marilyn Memories

Posted on 08/5/2012 by | Volunteering | Comments

Entertainment | LegacyFifty years ago, on August 5, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood home. Had she lived, she would have been 86-years-old. I have a longstanding Marilyn obsession, which makes this post tough to write. What could I reveal that hasn’t possibly already been said, written and speculated about her life?  What unique photo can I share? What evidence could I provide about the mystery surrounding her death? Perhaps you can relate to …

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