This collection of stories celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Rocca and Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering — breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records — and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father.
This collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans — some long gone and some very much still living. The cast of characters includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three.
- On Wednesday, I wrote about the word "musclespan" and why I keep walking, walking walking, HERE.
- My Thursday Thoughts were about Brioche (bree-aash), a light sweet pastry or bun., HERE. It probably should have been posted on Wednesday, as my word of the day. Ah, well.
- On Friday, HERE, was the beginning of a book I had just gotten. The book's title was Shelf Respect. As a self-respecting word lover, I have to say I got it because of the play on words.
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