Space travel’s surprising impact upon humanity
Most of us grew up with the space race. Here’s an article that look as space travel’s impact in terms of product development.
Farewell to Stephen Sondheim
“His legacy is one that will be debated and argued over as long as people care about musical theatre.”
Adam Gopnik remembers Stephen Sondheim, who died recently at the age of 91:
And yet a kind of Devil’s Theory case may be made, that it was Sondheim who was the most personal, the most truly confessional, of all the great American songwriters. For all that Sondheim spoke only of character and scene and story, when we listen to his music what we hear is not characters, not scenes, but a long, unwinding, timeless soliloquy, charting a psyche at once unimaginably large-souled and thwarted, with sensitivity and guardedness combined—a wounded talent reaching out beyond itself for love and meaning and, above all, for connection.
The original Gerber Baby is celebrating her 95th birthday
Click if you remember “Babies are our business. Our only business.”
Ann Turner Cook, the owner of the baby face that accompanied these ads, turns 95.
10 Tips for Happy Aging From a Feisty 80-Something
Some advice from an 80-something woman whose parents “were not role models for a vital old age.” She had to figure it out for herself, she tells us, and here shares some of what she’s learned.
Fate stomped all over Moby Grape, but Tacoma guitar god Jerry Miller is still rocking and rolling with the punches
what happened to Miller and his colleagues in Moby Grape — a band that combined the raw guitar punch of the Who with the soaring, lit-from-within harmonies of the Beach Boys — might be seen as a cautionary tale.
Something to read if you’re still thinking of getting the band back together.
Growing Old in High Style
A look at what retirement life can be like in New York City for folks who can afford it.
Mel Brooks Writes It All Down
“The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on ‘History of the World, Part II.’”
You think you hear gunshots in a public place. How should you respond?
We had air-raid drills in school.
It breaks my heart to realize that students today have to practice “lockdown” and “active shooter” scenarios. But some of the same situations can occur in other public places such as shopping malls. For those of us who didn’t grow up with this education, here’s some advice.
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
Retreading for Retirement 