Tag Archives: aging

Aging Before Your Very Eyes

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

A plausible scenario of start to finish based on a related family of girls and women:

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You’re a Weirdo

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

__________ Jim Morrison was born in 1943. That means that, had he lived to 2013, he would be turning 70 this year. That’s a weird thought.

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An Atheist Speaks From The Heart About Aging

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Try not to cry. __________ One of Maurice Sendak’s books is here.

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Amour is “a Masterpiece”

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

The hard-to-please movie reviewer at The New Republic, David Thomson, calls Amour the best movie of the year. Here’s Thomson: Readers may say, “Well, you don’t like many films,” and they’d be right. I thought Prometheus was a catastrophe, Argo overrated, Anna Karenina risible, The Deep Blue Sea regrettable. … Continue reading →

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72 is the New 30

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Really. This is at the Los Angeles Times: [R]esearch, published online Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [… finds that a] typical Swede, […] is more than 100 times more likely to survive to the age … Continue reading →

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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Turning 65

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

Via the Daily Beast today: “It sucks. Mentally I’m young. But you cannot stop the body from aging. Someone like myself despises the thought of death. I have a real problem with that. And after you run up the stairs … Continue reading →

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Christopher Hitchens’ Advice to Young People

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

A powerful appeal from Hitchens when he was clearly in decline. Carpe diem. _____ Hitchens would have had his 62nd birthday this past week, and Charlie Rose did a powerful roundtable discussion with four of his closest friends—Salmon Rushdie, Martin … Continue reading →

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Life Perspective

Posted on November 25, 2011 by
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Fall Poem: Actor Ralph Richardson Reads John Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” After Reflecting on Old Age and Death

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Ralph Richardson died in 1983 at the age of 81, so this clip is from the mid-1970s.

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Advice for Dying Fathers (Contra Dylan Thomas)

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

_____ Leaves cling, do not go gently, but go just The same. The signal is yellow; the alive Are always downcast before being cast down. Look! The green team winning all summer Is starting to lose badly, going bald in The stunning … Continue reading →

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A Pretty Good Math Joke

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

I remembered a math joke this morning that I haven’t thought of in a long time. Two mathematicians, both 30 years old, married to one another, are talking over coffee. The husband says to his wife: When I’m 60, I’m trading … Continue reading →

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Aubrey de Grey’s TED Talk on Aging

Posted on September 28, 2010 by
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“Everybody who came to our wedding is dead!”

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

Both of my wife’s parents are alive and in their late 70s, and here’s what her mother said in response to the idea of having a big 50th wedding anniversary party: Everybody who came to our wedding is dead! My wife’s … Continue reading →

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“Another Woman”: An Obscure Woody Allen Film from 1988 That I Thought was Exceptional

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

My wife and I own—with perhaps the exception of one or two titles—all of Woody Allen’s films on DVD. That doesn’t mean, however, that we’ve actually watched all of them. We have favorites, for example, that have endured multiple viewings—Husbands and Wives and Matchpoint—and … Continue reading →

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Which Blue Bus Is Calling Us? Faith, Atheism, and Death in John Updike’s Last Collection of Short Stories

Posted on June 8, 2009 by

This past weekend, T.C. Boyle reviewed, for the New York Times, John Updike’s posthumously published collection of short stories (17 of 18 of them written in the past decade), and Boyle noticed the theme of religious faith running through a … Continue reading →

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John Updike’s Final Collection of Short Stories, “My Father’s Tears”, Has Just Been Published

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

Stefan Beck, who blogs at The New Criterion website, likes John Updike’s final collection of short stories (which just came out). Money quote: The posthumous collection My Father’s Tears reminds us of one wonderful thing about Updike: Practically any example … Continue reading →

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McMemory Lapse: John McCain Struggles With His Memory on National Television, Reminding Viewers of the Age Issue

Posted on October 26, 2008 by

Is 72 year old Republican John McCain’s cognitive ability showing signs of decline? You betcha!: Dr. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, on aging and cognitive abilities: [S]everal studies conducted over the past decade or so show that when … Continue reading →

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