Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was a kid, I thought that birdwatching with my Grandpa Bob was the most boring activity imaginable. But now, I'm pushing 40 ...

In my hometown, everybody called it the "old folks' home." It's where my aunt worked long ago, and I used to tag along as a boy because I liked the people who lived there. In the old folks' home, ...

Language is always evolving, even if we don't notice it. As generations pass, words that were once commonplace fall out of fashion. Some people bemoan the ways that our style of communication has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1. Now that I'm older, my memory isn't as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory isn't as sharp as it used to be. 2. What do an ...

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the original members of the Grey Panthers, the organization ...

Ever visit an old folk’s home? There is a place where old folks go to live out their remaining years of life. It is nothing quite like the home they once knew, but old age and increasing related ...

Aging isn’t always the most fun thing in the world, but it sure can be funny if you approach it with an easygoing attitude. In fact, joking about getting older—and the assorted health and life ...

Long before Social Security was created and the term "senior citizen" was coined, the residents of Grant County began gathering once a year to sing the ancient hymns of faith for hours upon hours.

YEARS ARE SO LONG—Josephine Lawrence—Stokes ($2.50). Though Years Are So Long could not be called propaganda for Mother’s Day, it is a novel with a Social Message. Its message is in the form of an ...