Published in: To Oldly Go: Tales of Adventurous Travel by the Over-60s On: November 2015 When I hit sixty, my eldest daughter said, “Sixty is the new forty.” These words spawned in me a wanderlust the likes of which I couldn’t believe, and weeks after my birthday I challenged myself to go alone to Antarctica. After cavorting with […]
Read More“I am the only Greek in my family.The fishing net draped across the front entry adds a definitive new leitmotif to my San Francisco Edwardian home. The building has a blue-tinged white luster much like the structures that cling to the angular precipices of Greece’s southern Peloponnese area of Lakonia. According to Greek lore, the fishing net, having survived the washings of forty different currents, is so pure and clear it will bless my home and guard against evil. You see, I’ve just returned from Greece and have discovered my true Greek ancestry.
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Read More“With the theoretical human life span generally agreed to stand at about 120 years and a rapidly growing aging population, biotechnology companies are developing new therapeutics and methods to extend and expand a healthy aging process.
They recently met at the second annual Conference on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biomedical Technology in Las Vegas, NV, to discuss novel ways to on prevent or alleviate the diseases of aging – cancer, osteoporosis and diabetes. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) sponsored the meeting. “
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