Living

Friendships often begin and endure because of common interests and experiences. But does it matter if your friends are all the same age as you? Can you be friends and enjoy the companionship of someone much younger or much older? Increasingly, intergenerational friendships (or “age-gap” friendships, as British writer Marianne…

Cooking can be one of the great joys in life- or, one of the growing number of frustrations if your hands aren’t quite as nimble as they used to be or your aching back or legs make it harder to stand for a long time. Moreover, mistakes in the kitchen…

Charlie and Lois O’Brien perfectly fit the definition of “love bugs.” They’ve been married for 55 years, have travelled the world together and work in the same field: entomology. So bugs are their business, and their business has been extraordinarily successful. Now in their 80s, the two have collected over…

It sounds like a Hollywood movie: a restless retiree realizes that perhaps he left the work world too soon and begins searching for something new. He winds up as the oldest summer intern among dozens of millennials. At first, awkwardness ensues but eventually they each learn to appreciate what the…

You may be familiar with the award winning public radio program, On Being. Hosted by journalist and author Krista Tippet, the show tackles some of the big questions in life. The website for On Being not only features stories from each week’s radio program but it also has essays that delve into…

A new study from the Pew Research Center captures the moment: 42% of people over 65 now have smart phones, up from just 18% in 2013. Clearly, the trend is for seniors to embrace technology just as younger cohorts have done. However, if you’re still sitting on the sidelines of this…