Sometimes we meet people and wonder years later, “I wonder what happened to them?” The “Up” series gives us a glimpse into that wondering. Michael Apted, a British filmmaker, started the series in 1964 with “Seven Up” interviewing 14 children – at age 7 –…
My Boomer U story today was about newlyweds Theresa and Joe Phillips who married July 20. She was 68. He was 81. Neither expected to marry again. But they fell madly in love a few years ago and tied the knot. No one knows how…
Following Pope Francis – his travels and theology – causes me to smile and relax. No silly statements, just embracing people and their humanity. His comments infused with compassion and kindness offer hope for the Catholic Church. See story I think that Jesus may have…
Every so often, I read stories like the one about Helen and Les Brown: they died a day apart. Born on the same day, married 75 years, friends and lovers for life; now they enjoy eternal life – together. Can one die of a broken…
When the full moon shines into our bedroom window, my husband often says, “Why did you leave the outside light on?” And later, as he snores away, I am up pacing through the house in the dark, unable to sleep. Finally, research supports my experience:…
OK, this story on CathNewsUSA got my attention. It begins: The 76-year-old Argentine Jesuit, who lost most of one lung following an infection in his youth, has been acting like a man half his age during his first international trip as pope, adding in events…
The journal Circulation recently reported on a longitudinal study of 27,000 men that showed those who ate breakfast regularly cut their risk of a heart attack. Men who skipped breakfast, meanwhile, raised their risk by 27 percent. Read NPR story. I was a breakfast eater…
So many of us spend time and thought when naming our children. William and Kate have that extra royal pressure of naming their child as a future monarch: George Alexander Louis, welcome to the world. We hope for only happiness and good health for this…
In my Monday Boomer U story, I examined the myths we boomers grew up in the 1960s, including the one where the black widow spider nested in a teen's beehive and when the spider eggs hatched, they bit the teen's scalp, killing her. Great illustration…
After 23 years of working for the same organization, I have resigned my position and am now…home. Retirement? Refocus? Renewal? Rethinking possibilities for the future? Relaxing? Time will tell. Seem to be having trouble with the relaxing thing. If there is no other formal employment…
The report is out once again on where the healthiest places are in the country to live once one is retired. Washington state is among the better places to live during retirement. Lifestyle choices along the way - what we eat and our activity level…
A friend's husband was diagnosed this summer with cancer, and the friend is being a fierce warrior for the man she's loved a long time. The cancer involves treatments out of town, so there's travel and lodging and keeping one hand in the treatment and…
Boomers once again are driving an industry: restaurants. Stats show that we are the major consumers at restaurants – not our 20-something children who are struggling a bit in this economy. (See story.) (S-R photo archives: Fery Haghighi has been running restaurants in the Spokane…
A financial advisor friend once told me he thinks the Greatest Generation -- the 5 million of them still with us -- might have more money stashed in places in their homes or in bank accounts than anyone can imagine. Boomer children, he said, will…
Apparently addiction has claimed another life of a talented young star. Cory Monteith, 31, a rising star on the FOX network series “Glee,” was found dead in a Vancouver, British Columbia hotel room Saturday. (See story.) The pull of addiction claims so many young, gifted…
A friend gave me a memorial card she received from another friend. She had remembered I wrote recently about how memorial programs will get even more popular, more elaborate and much more creative in coming years. This friend of a friend's memorial program included a…
The six Nappi "kids" grew up in the Downriver neighborhood next door to the Codd family, famous in the neighborhood for having 11 children. We each had a Codd our own age, and so it was instant playmates and never a problem finding enough kids…
From Jackie Babin..."proud WSU Alumni." My 60th was almost four years ago. My sister and my favorite cousin felt I should do something special. They suggested I parachute out of a plane. Since I preferred to live to celebrate my 70th birthday, I compromised and…
Margie Heller calebrated her 60th birthday this way: I didn't make a big deal out of my 60th. Turning 50 had been scary for me; I'd had a big party then so friends could help me get through it. But this year I turned 64.…
I am going to run some of the 60th birthday celebrations readers told me about too late to include for my Boomer U story last Monday. Here's how my Mary Margaret Brajcich celebrated the Six-Oh. My two "old" cheerleading buddies from Calgary decided to celebrate…
Thank you Mary Thibault Akiyama for emailing me this photo of your backyard birthday party in 1962 on Heroy near Shadle Center. Mary posted it on Facebook after reading my Monday Boomer U story about celebrating 60th birthdays and how fondly most boomers remember their…
In my Monday Boomer U story, I wrote about the ways men and women will celebrate 60, a milestone birthday for boomers. “Sixty is really a pivotal age,” said Kathy Merlock Jackson in a recent phone interview. The 57-year-old boomer and Virginia Wesleyan College professor…
When two great-nephews, on two separate Hoopfest teams, arrived at their games Saturday in electric pink team shirts, I knew we weren't in boomer-color rules anymore. In my younger years, no teen boy would be caught wearing pink. But everywhere at Hoopfest Saturday, I saw…
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
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