FOR NEW YORK'S BOOMERS AND BEYOND | Volume 1 | Issue 24 | May 1 -31, 2007

Vent
Mailbag
Editor’s Letter

Voices

To the Editor:

Very Short

By Abby Tallmer
Happy Mother’s Day to all.  In honor of this May occasion, all Very Short items in this issue will be dedicated solely to women’s health-related concerns.  Gender parity will be achieved next month, when the Very Short column will be given over entirely to – what else? – men’s health, just in time for Father’s Day.

Ken Brown has been amusing himself and others since he first wrapped his grubby little fingers around a Faber Castell pencil in second grade. He has been publishing cartoons and other random printable objects for more than 30 years. He lives in a former cheese warehouse in downtown Manhattan with his wife and daughter, but has been known to occasionally send out digital smoke signals from a parallel universe.
Value Finance

Long-Term Care Insurance
By Lisa Brandes with S.W, Sherwin
Long-term care insurance is a subject none of us wants to think about. But it’s time to face facts.
Fact No. 1: A research study in May 2005, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks, reports that most Americans underestimate their likelihood of needing long-term care.

Verbiage

Obsolete
By Graham Meyer

Vital Force Profile

Nora Ephron
By Jerry Tallmer
There's nothing wrong with Nora Ephron's neck. "Oh yes there is," says the Nora whose latest book, a collection of what in an earlier and better day the New Yorker magazine would have called Occasional Pieces, is I Feel Bad About My Neck. As we meet, she is very smartly dressed, with an orange silk scarf tossed loosely around her neck.

Photo by Elena Seibert

In This Issue

Vision / Health

Sight Beyond Eyes
By Wickham Boyle
Lately, I’ve been grocery shopping without my glasses. And I’ve been known to read the stock pages with the newspaper flat on the floor while I perch high up on a chair. Have I bought ricotta cheese thinking it’s low-fat yogurt? Do my teenagers stand on chairs and imitate me? Of course.

View Health

Long-Term Care Planning Ahead
By Judith S.L. Young
The “Me Generation” has been taught to plan ahead. We know to exercise for good health, purchase health insurance, and squirrel away savings in 401k, IRA, and other investment vehicles for the golden years.

Venerate History

Old Blues, Take Two:Elite Role Models in “Retirement”
By David Gibbons
Well over half a century ago, in the golden light of early summer, a remarkable group of young men marched into Yale to begin their college education. America was in the throes of “the good war” against fascism -- in contrast to the questionable one we’re engaged in now -- and many among these freshmen would join the fight.


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Viva

Judith Malina Reborn on Clinton Street
By Jerry Tallmer
On Clinton Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a woman is voicing – dramatically declaiming – the imperishable last stanza of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. She rises to her feet to do it. It is her way of saying hello to an old acquaintance.

Voices Memoir

The Crash 1953
Part Two
By Charles Degelman
The soap-box-derby race course was laid out on Water Tower Hill, the steepest, straightest piece of road in town. In New England it is no easy feat to find a quarter-mile stretch of road that runs in a straight line, uphill, downhill, or on level ground.

Vast Memory

Out to Lunch
By Virginia Grant Clammer
A New Yorker cartoon depicts Superman, now balding and paunchy, standing poised at an open window. Just before take off, he turns to his middle-aged wife and asks: “Dang! Now where was I going?”