Memory is an integral part of our lives, enabling us to learn, make decisions, and form relationships.  In their book, "Why We Forget and How to Remember Better," authors Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger dive into the s…

After a much too long hiatus from the Specifically for Seniors podcast, I am so happy to be able to announce the official start of the Second Season.  The delay was due to the fact that my wife and I decided we had had enough of living in Flori…

There is an absolutely awful horror movie on Netflix called Old People.  I seriously recommend that you DO NOT waste your time watching this movie. The basic premise is that old people in Germany have been relegated to a "retirement home" with …

As you all know, when we reach a certain age, life has a way of taking preference over what we plan to do. This is the case with me and the reason Specifically for Seniors hasn't been dropping regular podcasts recently.  For those of you who a…

Sooner or later, in one way or another, we all come to the realization that our parents are growing old and that we are as well. Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D.C., was a recent guest on my pod…

Groucho Marx once quipped "Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana" Living only 8 to 15 days, the Specifically for Seniors podcast has very little usefulness for a fruit fly, but for older adult humans the podcast, over this first seaso…

"80 is the new 60", "You're only as old as you feel", "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" and on and on. Or as Martin Amis - the British Author - once wrote “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look an…

I fished quite a bit when I was younger and even made several attempts to learn to cast effectively with a fly rod, a skill, incidentally, that I never came close to mastering. I had heard of Orvis but had never had the pleasure of meeting the man b…

No, that's not what a podcast is... There are so many topics that lend themselves ideally to an audio podcast, - some fun like listening to talk about accomplishments that we still achieve, to new activities we’ve tried, to places we’ve…

What I am about to say worked for me and it may work for you as well.  The key, I think, is starting something new every 5 orso years after you leave your chosen endeavor.  But, and this is the really big but, it has to be something you've…