Reading comic books leads straight to delinquency. That’s what many parents believed in the 1940s when Trina Robbins, now 81, was growing up. Fortunately, Robbins’ family was not among them. Robbins, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., recalls taking her weekly, 10-cent allowance to the neighborhood candy store and after studying the week’s selection, buying ...
That year in Paris. It was everything 32-year-old David Upchurch had dreamed of. The streets, the galleries, the shows, the people. A charming apartment not far from the Moulin Rouge. A chocolate shop at one end of the block, a patisserie at the other. “That first truffle was magical. I spent all my money on ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you know of any seniors who are, for whatever reason, still working – in the public arena or at home – and willing to share their experience, please contact robinevans@sfseniorbeat.com. Once, or so the story goes, a cake and a gold watch signaled the end of one’s working life and the beginning ...
Bernard Lewis walked to his car, opened the door, unlocked the glove compartment and pulled out a Ziploc bag. “These,” he said, “are some of the letters and photos my customers sent me.” Crayoned notes from young children, photos of smiling families on vacation, ‘thank you’ letters. He handled them carefully. Lewis drives for Recology ...
Covid-19 has changed everyone’s life in some way. But Frank Plughoff’s most life-altering experience dates back two years – to another disease. It was a bad experience. Little did he know that the disease currently ravaging the world would provide him with a good one. Two years ago, a rare neurological illness robbed the 63-year-old ...
We are living in difficult times, said Conny Ford. So, at 70, she has no intention of sitting back and putting her feet up. “I continue to work because it is what I have done for almost 40 years and what I believe in.” Nationally, things are pretty messed up, but locally, she said, “I ...
