Given the number of conferences on aging and longevity around the world in 2015, I pick up from my June blog comments that we are at a watershed year on “age-talk”. Maybe because my head is in this dialogue space, for several years now – researching, writing, presenting and conversing; one could say that though,
That magic ride for my MRI three years ago. It was quite a road trip, in itself a sunny story. It was a suggestion from the clinic people that I bring a music CD to listen to while I was in the machine, so I brought along Franz Schubert’s Trout Quintet. Perfect choice. How did
What a stunning time of discovery we live in, fifteen percent into the 21st century. Surely, that must have sounded a familiar account of the times when Galileo first gazed through his telescope, with a creative blur in his eyes, seeing “one giant leap for mankind” in 1969. How about the lesser-known Angelo Mosso, the
Seems fitting with the 2015 World Series under way this week that I take the time to mention the passing of Yogi Berra, two weeks ago at age 90. What was the secret to his longevity? Never having met the man, I can’t say for sure, but it strikes me (no pardon on the pun)