VENT

Happy, merry, joyful, and hopeful
This is not only the end of the year twenty-oh-seven, it is also the end of the first full year for THRIVEnyc.

Very Short
New cardiology advances save many lives
By ABBY TALLMER
Now, for a change, an uplifting item about a serious and too often somber subject: heart disease.

VARIETYTidbits
Get rid of clutter, help someone else, and leave yourself open to holiday electronics.

VIVIDTrends
Time Traveling
By LARRY TRITTEN
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” — Madeleine L’Engle

Verbiage
Holiday Shopping
By GRAHAM MEYER

Joan Rivers
By JERRY TALLMER
It is only one floor, the top floor of a huge old town house just off Fifth Avenue, but what a floor. Bedroom, dining room, music room, library, even – yes! — a ballroom. We’re sitting in the library, her two dogs, Lulu and Max, dozing at her feet. “They’re both rescued dogs,” says Joan Rivers. No pretzels, no beer, just a banana which she peels and eats as we talk. “They’re very good for you,” she says.