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Tina Martin

The biggest, best walk – and bath of a lifetime.

August 15, 2025 Life in the Later Lane 3 Comments

SENIORBEAT GUEST COLUMN – I love San Francisco, and I love to walk. So when a friend told me about a group walk tracing the 32-mile perimeter of San Francisco, I decided to try it. This was in March of 2023. We would start at the Ferry Building, loop south, west, north, and return to ...

Tina Martin

Pen pals from afar build rich relationship over 60 years through old-fashioned correspondence – no WhatsApp about it

June 12, 2024 All Posts

A SENIOR BEAT GUEST COLUMN – My correspondence with Jutta Mengersen (now Brockhaus), the “World’s Ideal Pen Pal,” began in 1963, when we were both in high school. She was in Detmold, Germany, and I was in Columbia, South Carolina. Since then, we’ve met in my home in San Francisco and in her home in ...

Tina Martin

The biggest, best walk – and bath of a lifetime.

Pen pals from afar build rich relationship over 60 years through old-fashioned correspondence – no WhatsApp about it

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