(What is middle_age? - Edit Wiki)
Videos 1 to 9
 Lillian Rubin - How Has Increased Life Expectancy Changed Aging?
from FORA.tv - Daily Video FORAcast
January 10, 2008
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/12/16/Lillian_Rubin_Truth_About_Aging Author Lilian Rubin discusses changes to our concept of aging brought about by increased life expectancy. ----- Lillian Rubin discusses "60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America." Best-selling author, sociologist, and psychotherapist, Dr. Rubin takes a penetrating look at the profound changes - personal and societal - that come with the new longevity, for those living it now and the boomers behind them in her new book, "60 On Up." - Grace Cathedral Lillian Rubin lives and works in San Francisco. She is an internationally known writer and lecturer, who has published twelve books over the last three decades. She is most recently the author of the book "60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America."
|
 A Rebellious Nature -- Short Cummings Audio #82
from Short Cummings Audio
January 05, 2008
On the great feedlot of life, I'm just another barbecue-on-the-hoof, passing time mooing and waiting for the day they award me a gold watch and shoo me into the stunning pen. In terms of domestication, I'm at a ninety-two on a ten-point scale. I realized the full extent of my tractability at the local Super-Ultra-Mega-Mart last week. I urgently had to purchase a few things including bread, Bandaids, Bactine and a new toaster. At the checkout, I swiped my credit card and scrawled something on the electronic pad that might have been my signature or a quick sketch of two worms wrestling. The computer beeped and flashed a message. âSignature exceeds space available.â I squinted. Sure enough. I'd drawn outside the lines. âSorry,â I said and signed again, more carefully this time. It didn't strike me until I was out of the store. I'd just apologized to a computer. A MACHINE! A hunk of junk hardware no smarter than a fifth-grader had called me out and I just stood there and took it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Want to get the rest of this essay or others like it? Check out the whole audio essay and related links at www.ShortCummingsAudio.com. NOTES: A few links to things of interest I mentioned in passing:If you're a fan of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader you can check out the show's info (and play a trivia game) at http://tinyurl.com/2atl9y.Designer Marc Ecko evidently shares my fascination with the Rebel outfits in Star Wars. You can read about his line of Rebel-inspired clothing at: http://tinyurl.com/2ffmjk.The Guardian ran a funny rundown of Star Wars fashion. You can read it at http://tinyurl.com/yowl3c. Tags: humor essay | humor column | rebel | star wars | middle age | comedy
|
3-2-1 Contacts! -- Short Cummings Audio #81
from Short Cummings Audio
December 29, 2007
My life is a blur these days. Really. I've traded my reliable (but stodgy) glasses for less reliable (but far more exciting) contacts. Like a lot of guys who try to trade up, I think I may have simply swapped one set of problems for another. I slipped solidly into geekdom at the age of ten when I was fitted with a pair of black-rimmed glasses that had all of the aesthetic appeal and elegance of a spork at formal dinner party. Years passed and my eyes stabilized until I landed on the big square labeled '40' and I couldn't read any more. The nice eye doctor wrote me a prescription for progressives. Through a miracle of modern manufacturing, progressives have two different kinds of lenses forcibly melded into one ineffectual whole; sort of like a compass with a whistle in it, a tent trailer, or low-fat, sugar-free ice-cream. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Want to get the rest of this essay or others like it? Check out the whole audio essay and related links at www.ShortCummingsAudio.com. NOTES: Alert listeners might notice two pop-culture references in this episode.The first is in the title, which is a nod to the Children's Television Workshop's science show 3-2-1 Contact. If you're into nostalgia (and remember the series) you might want to read more about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-2-1_ContactThe other reference is a little older. See if you can catch my homage to The Great Escape. Read more about it at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/ Tags: humor essay | humor column | contacts | eyesight | middle age | comedy
|
|
Log in or sign up to leave comments.
0 comments on middle age:
(No comments yet..)
get widgets
RSS feed for middle age: 
To add your video to this page, just add this code in your video blog post:
|
