A SENIOR BEAT COLUMN When I came back from the mall today, I sat down on a bench outside my apartment building, taking in the sun. After a minute, I took off my mask and tapped out a couple of tortilla chip crumbs. I brushed a couple more from the sides of my mouth. Then ...
I didn’t want a caregiver. My daughter and my sisters were determined to get me one. I had broken my wrist in a fall and couldn’t do anything with a sling on my arm. Everyone who stopped by my apartment to see how I was doing had to open a jar or a bottle of ...
Kathy Schmidt went to high school in Kansas, where her father taught singing at the college level. Her mother taught high school until she married. Schmidt graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a minor in Spanish from Wheaton College in Massachusetts. But in the early ’50s, a woman with that kind of ...
We asked Senior Power! founder Margaret Graf to tell us about the biggest challenge she has faced and what helped her move through it. Margaret Graf saved herself by helping her neighbors. She was inconsolable after the deaths of her daughter and her husband. Finding little support in her Parkside neighborhood, where she had lived ...
Leigh McLellan,70, Inner Sunset The COVID crisis is definitely a case of life giving us lemons. However, thanks to Zoom, a lot of lemonade is happening, too, and I am participating in things I might not have done otherwise. Next Monday evening I am reading a part in a play on Drama with Friends. My ...
We want to share the experiences and opinions of San Francisco adults 50 and over. If you’d like to be one of the people we contact for our next Seniors Say question, send your name and neighborhood to Mary Hunt, maryhunt@sfseniorbeat.com. We’d also like your age and a picture but these are optional. Nancy Ware ...
