October 12, 2016 is World Arthritis Day According to the Canadian Arthritis Society and the Arthritis Foundation, Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive or degenerative disease and is the most common type of arthritis. When the cartilage between joints breaks down (as happens with OA), the resultant pain, stiffness and swelling make it difficult to move the … Continued
Celebrating the songs and story of Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates): She’s Gone, Rich Girl, Kiss on My List, Private Eyes, Did It In A Minute, One on One, Say It Isn’t So, Method of Modern Love, Everything Your Heart Desires, So Close. (Daryl Hall 2012 Photo: Matthew Becker, Weatherman90 at English Wikipedia) American R&B and soul … Continued
It’s World Sight Day. Most older adults can expect to encounter some form of vision loss as they enter their 50+ and senior citizen years. (Blurry Vision and Glasses Photo: Nonsap Visuals via Unsplash) The American Academy of Opthalmology (AAO) tells us that Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a deterioration or breakdown of the eye’s macula … Continued
Baby Boomer Trivia From October 1946: First Cannes Festival, Canada Savings Bonds Debut, First Space Photos The first Cannes International Film Festival in 1946 ran from September 20th – October 5th, 1946. On the closing day October 5, 1946, among the movies that won the Grand Prize of the Festival were Brief Encounter (1945) by … Continued
Swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland was born on October 6, 1942 in Stockholm, Sweden. Ekland has said of her childhood that “I always tried to be funny to make up for the fact that I was fat and ugly.” She quit school to go on the road with a theatre company and ended up in … Continued
Celebrating Chubby Checker‘s 75th birthday with his story and vintage performances: The Class, The Twist, Pony Time, Let’s Twist Again, The Fly, Slow Twisting (duet with Dee Dee Sharp), Limbo Rock. (Chubby Checker 1961 Twist Around the Clock Movie Screenshot) Septuagenarian senior citizen and singer-dancer Chubby Checker was named Ernest Evans when he was born … Continued
Pinterest article source: What is Pinterest and How Does It Work? by TechBoomers.com What is Pinterest and How Does It Work? Have you ever kept a collection of interesting things in a scrapbook, on a bulletin board, or perhaps on your fridge door? Pictures of friends or loved ones? Drawings or school assignments that your children or grandchildren … Continued
Angie Dickinson, Part 2: From Police Woman to Oceans Eleven (1970-2016) By the early 1970’s, Angie Dickinson’s husband Burt Bacharach‘s career was at a peak, after winning the Academy Award Best Song for Raindrop’s Keep Fallin’ on my Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970). Dickinson’s career was in decline; although she did appear in a few … Continued