The 4th article in the Dad’s Had a Stroke Series under our stories section.
For those of you that read my first 3 articles, I don’t want to minimize the 5+ weeks Dad spent in the hospital before being transferred...
Early in our relationship, Cass and I fell in love with Toronto, one of the most beautiful cities. Anywhere. It was only natural, I suppose, living in Buffalo, New York, a quick drive to the Peace Bridge and then...
Although I was just a boy during World War II, I had the remarkable opportunity in 1945, when I was just 14, to work with US Military leadership. By that time, I had already experienced the war from a...
Brooklyn has had it’s share of great personalities and stars from today’s richest woman, Judge Judy to singing stars, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, Carole King and hundreds of vocal groups that graced the airwaves of the 50’s...
We begin outside a neon streaked roadhouse, a couple of miles outside of Wichita, Kansas.
A large portable sign sits outside the roadhouse, just beside the highway, and announces “Turk’s Army – Thursday thru Sunday”. It was now Friday night.
A...
What do you do when you have nowhere to hide from a family history of illnesses?
High blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart problems can be treated and monitored with medication, changing your diet, and regular doctor visits....
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Is it "nifty" after 50?
Is there sex after 60?
Is there success after 70?
Relevant to these questions is how much the coronaviris has affected your life--surely a stressor and disrupter for everyone (and particularly dangerous for us seniors.)
2020 wasn't very...
You smoke. Oh, not a lot. Seven, maybe 8 a day. Mom was like that.
If necessary, you can go two or three hours between puffs. A movie. A dinner party. A Little League game.
Mom was like that.
You don’t smoke...
Almost every Thursday for the past six years, Anne Marie Barletta has played mahjong. This day is no different. She sits at a table with two other women, moving tiles between the shiny mahogany stand in front of her and the...
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I recently had a birthday and am nearly a quarter century "old." I share my age with at least 60 million boomers, assuming that all those of my generation who once thought they'd "live forever"...
