Frisky French connection

We turn today to a question that for ages has occupied far wiser women and men than Jeff and myself, “Is there a connection between traditional French cooking and advanced sexagenarian friskiness?” If the answer is yes, what is it? And even if the answer is no, why has the question troubled smart people for [...]

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Works for us

If Jeff and I have learned anything prancing merrily along the road to our present blissful state of frisky “sexagenarianism” it is stick with the things that work. But before I get to this column’s main meat and potatoes let me say why this so-evocative word is in quotes (“inverted commas” in good old-fashioned British [...]

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Oh no, they won’t

In a speech last week the biggest of all bosses of the giant Microsoft company said, “In the next 10 years, computers as flexible as a sheet of paper will replace notepads and newspapers, while others will be able to intuit what you’re trying to find online.” Of course you’d expect him to say that [...]

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Mind games

Long ago and far away – Judy and I were mere infants – a book titled “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale topped the New York Times best seller list. “For 186 consecutive weeks” – according to the publisher – “and translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold” [...]

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And the question was?

Writing this weekly column about sexagenarian friskiness Jeff and I have to be constantly on our toes answering tricky questions from people who know we’re the perpetrators thereof. One of the problems however is to not get too involved in deep psychological ramifications. We have our firm opinions and greatly enjoy writing about them but [...]

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