60's Now

This is one of my Lost Blogs, even as blogworld becomes the land of the lost.  But there's a lot of good stuff here, and I want to keep ...

This blog hasn't been active in awhile, but I did post on significant birthdays here: turning 60 and turning 65.  Now I've gone past...

New York Magazine's website has an article celebrating 50 years since John Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City.  It briefly de...

This hits home, literally. The recent announcements from Social Security and Medicare raise multiple issues, but the very local bottom li...

They are called the 60s, a single ten year lump to praise or blame. But those of us who lived through them know that each year of that de...

Paul McCartney takes the subversive power of rock and roll into the post-human future, but with a poignancy at the end that speaks for all...

A little inspiration for boomers from the 1998 film "Still Crazy:" one of the two great songs in a movie about 70s rockers reuni...

In The Nostalgia Factory (Yale), history of psychology professor Douwe Draaima deals with both aspects of memory in the aging mind: the ...

The recent deaths of writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peter Matthiessen bring home a truth about those of us in our 60s now: our world i...

There was so much hype for so long about the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first trip to America and first appearance on the Ed Sullivan...

In the 1960s it was becoming clear that pop culture was becoming American culture.  By now that seems perfectly normal.  The media covers po...

When President John F. Kennedy was murdered on November 23, 1963, the course of the future changed in the U.S. and around the world. Fif...

I was 17 and a Catholic high school student when I participated in what was officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Free...

From a report in the New York Times on psychological research into the functions of nostalgia: Nostalgia has been shown to counter...

On the 45th anniversary of his assassination, some words on the future, from speeches made at various times and places by Robert F. Kenned...

This is one of the videos now on Youtube from a concert featuring James Taylor and his son, Ben Taylor.  The video quality isn't gre...

Through press secretary Jay Carney, the Obama administration today ruled out raising the eligibility age for Medicare.  It was proposed as a...

Conventional wisdom--what "everybody" believes--is a tricky thing.  When it involves assumptions based on experience, you have to ...

Older people often care passionately about the future, even if--and maybe especially if--it is not a future we are likely to share.  We...

George McGovern died Sunday at the age of 90. I remain proud that my first vote for a presidential candidate was for him in 1972. I cove...