Feeling Squeeze of Long-Distance Care
Ronda Wilkin
May 5, 2005
Dad\’s first bypass surgery was 25 years ago. I don\’t think any of us realized he was living on borrowed time.
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Lifecycles
Discovering Keys to Lasting Matrimony
Sheryl P. Kurland
May 5, 2005
In the late 1940s, Ron Farrar\’s and Joan Pachtman\’s passion to help those in need charted the course for personal passion and lifelong matrimony. The West Hills residents met in college, when Ron was a member of a veteran\’s organization and Joan belonged to a service club.
He’s my …
Teresa Strasser
April 7, 2005
The term \”boyfriend\” is like the knee joint on someone who is morbidly obese. It is being asked to do way more than it was designed to do. It is buckling under the pressure. Where it once could do the job, it is now carrying too much weight
The Good, the Bad and the Confusing
Ed Shevick
February 3, 2005
You cannot spend time and energy wondering where the years went. They are finished.
Seniors must concentrate on now. Enjoy life now. Do what you can within your abilities. Life is precious and good. Tomorrow will come at its own speed.
She’s 88 and Going Like 60 Volunteering
Ellie Kahn
February 3, 2005
Imagine this situation: You\’ve arrived at LAX after hours of sitting in an airplane from Italy. You\’ve waited in line to get through customs, lugged your suitcases from the baggage claim and you finally emerge to locate your relatives. But they\’re nowhere to be found, and you don\’t speak English. What do you do?
WWI Huns Spark His Passion for Exercise
Hillel Price
February 3, 2005
I joined the Maccabi organization when I was 16. It was a sports club with a Zionist philosophy. The goal was to build a strong youth who would be able to fight for Eretz Yisrael.
Friendships Add Life to Scholarships Role
Marc Ballon
December 31, 2004
As a young man, Bernie Axelrad learned two invaluable lessons: family and education are everything.
Saying Goodbye to an Angel in Sin City
Teresa Strasser
December 30, 2004
It\’s Davidson, as in Ronald Davidson, my stepfather. He died yesterday at 62 and that\’s why I\’m at a funeral home out on Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas. My mom is here, too, and though there are copious boxes of proper tissue in the place, she is clinging to the roll of toilet paper she\’s had by her side since returning from the hospital with nothing but a bag of Ron\’s stuff: slippers, a stack of Louis L\’Amour paperbacks, his watch.
Grampa’s Advice: Pass on ‘First-Tell’
Saul Turteltaub
October 28, 2004
It took me six years of being a grandfather to accept the fact that my grandchildren may not be more brilliant or athletic than everyone else\’s.
A Man Walks Into a Hospital and . . .
Hank Rosenfeld
October 28, 2004
Irving Brecher, 91-year-old wannabe-stand-up comic, is nervous. The Doctors Emeritus Society of Cedars-Sinai is at the buffet in the Harvey Morse room, a conference hall where the old practitioners gather every month to hear specialists on subjects like pain control. Sometimes a marine biologist will discuss Darwin.
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