From reaching for gold at the Olympics at age 14, and coming out as gay in Portland, Ore., from letting go of a 30-year marriage to walking 500 miles along Spain’s Camino de Santiago, Carolyn Wood has accumulated some wisdom. That was in evidence Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Institute on Aging, when Wood read ...
Carol Magidson, having no children of her own, adopted a giant panda. And someday, she hopes to be a grand-panda-parent. In the late 1960s, Magidson and her mother went to London specially to see the giant pandas and became entranced. After many trips to China to visit and work in the panda reserves, Magidson,78, adopted ...
OUR COLUMNS On the fourth floor of the downtown San Francisco Public Library, a collage exhibit teased my mind _ and my fancy. More so, when I realized I knew one of the artists. David Cox and Molly Hankwitz, of the Bivoulab Studio collective, have glued, pasted and duct-taped everyday objects in ways that are oddly ...
San Francisco has opened its first courts solely for pickleball, a blend of tennis, badminton and ping pong that has been called the fastest growing senior sport in the United States. San Francisco pickleball enthusiasts have been angling for dedicated courts for some time. Although there are a number of courts around the city where people ...
Partners in life Bob Callori, 75, and Chris Goodwin, 66, also share a passion for Track and Field. Both competed in the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games in May – and both were front-runners. Both ran in the 400-meter and the 800-meter sprints, but in their different age groups. “I won Gold in both and ...
OUR COLUMNS Most of the 60 or more seniors who regularly attend the OMI Senior Center are Asian, but that didn’t prevent Tiffany Huynh, the program coordinator, from organizing a celebration for Mexican Independence Day. Five, maybe 10 of our members are Latino, but everyone enjoys celebrations,” Huynh said. “We love celebrating everyone’s holiday. The ...
