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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Della, 64: A Different Kind of Winning

…I came in dead LAST. (No surprise there!) But, I WON the day. I won over my fear. I won over my lack of confidence in my physical ability. Everyone…

Friday, August 14, 2015

“Little Old Lady” on the Tube

Every week we pick a person – senior or junior, well known or not – who’s been in the news over the past seven days. Got a nomination? Email editor@seniorplanet.org…

Monday, March 7, 2016

Video of the Week: Why Stay in Chernobyl?

…stay in their homes in the contaminated dead zone created by one of the worst nuclear power accident in history. “Babushkas,” which has been showing on the festival circuit since…

Thursday, September 21, 2023

The SAG-AFTRA Strike: an Inside View

…redundant; films and TV productions can use the technology to digitize an actor’s likeness for a one-time small fee. Even a dead actor. “The days of the movie star are…

Monday, June 17, 2019

Q&A: Carol Kane

Dead Don’t Die with Bill Murray and Ghost Light with Cary Elwes. On the eve of her 67th birthday, this fascinating New Yorker tells Senior Planet how she has never…

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Senior Planet Book Club: Vote For Our Next Book!

…Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina de Robertis. Now it is time to select our next reading! Each Tuesday, we’ll post a thread here…

Friday, October 27, 2023

Open Thread Update: Your Fave Spooky Movies

…young I saw Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Triffids, both in black and white … made me sleep under the bed for weeks!   The most…

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Remembering Erica Manfred

Longtime Senior Planet contributor Erica Manfred passed away Thursday September 21 in hospice in Florida. Erica Manfred was not one to mince words. “That first page is a mess,” she…

Friday, September 5, 2014

Joan Rivers Requests a Hollywood Funeral

…different accents. I don’t want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing “Mr. Lonely.” I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do…

Thursday, June 6, 2013

WATCH: Mickey Hart Beats the Drum for Alzheimer’s Research

…and kept saying my name, and I realized that the drum had triggered that response in her.” Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has been getting all Rhythms of the Cosmos…

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Use Your Phone To Go Green

Earth Day is April 22nd, but the whole month is dedicated to saving our planet’s environment. According to the Earth Day Network, that date- is the largest civic observance in…

Friday, May 8, 2020

A Day in Quarantine in NYC

…similar urban settings, some completely foreign. Here’s a quick look at a typical day in Plague Central. Good Morning! I wake up between 7 and 8 am. After coffee and…

Friday, May 21, 2021

Open Thread Update: Best Mother’s Day

…She IS my Mother’s Day Gift.” “The best Mother’s Day gift I got was a poem written by my son…” Inez W. Like a friend who preferred getting a plant…

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

It’s Easy Being Green on Earth Day — And Beyond

…an Earth Day song, which you can listen to here: What about tomorrow? Earth Day might only last 24 hours, but the momentum doesn’t need to end once the calendar…

Fri, February 16 EDT

Rethinking Exercise as We Age: How To Turn “One Day” Into “Day One”

This event is part of our Experts & Insights series. These programs feature subject matter experts sharing their knowledge with the Senior Planet community followed by a live demo of…