A Farmer Calls On Death To Save Her Land

by David Baron
National Public Radio
December 30, 2009

A few years ago, trees started coming down across the road from Joan Graham's Michigan horse farm. She set in place a plan to conserve her land after her death by giving it to a conservancy. But just to be safe, she added a grave twist: She would have her body — and anyone else who wanted to join her — buried on the land...

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Netroots Nation: Active Citizenry for All Ages

By Amanda Marcotte
RH Reality Check
August 17, 2009

Netroots Nation is about plugged in, BS-free active citizenry for all ages, and it showed.

Straight, Single, and Sixty: The Truth About Dating After 55

By Katherine Anne Forsythe
August 19, 2009
RH Reality Check

...Dating over fifty-five is alive and well in spite of the challenges, the heartbreak, and the silly happenings that come with age. The need for intimacy never ends.

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Grandmother’s Day: A chance to show what grandmas have to give

Sanra Ritten | May 2009 issue
Ode Magazine

In an effort to preserve the knowledge and skills of grandparents, famous Irish chef Darina Allen launched Slow Food International Grandmother’s Day, to be celebrated every April 25th...

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At 104, She Was Still 'Classy'

by Joseph Shapiro
National Public Radio
Morning Edition, June 18, 2009


Clarice Morant made promises — and she kept them. Like the promise she made to keep her brother and sister out of a nursing home. It didn't matter that Clarice Morant — who was better known by her nickname, Classy — was more than 100 years old...

For Some, L.A.'s Skid Row Is For Beginnings

by Ina Jaffe
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
April 20, 2009

Brown's a fierce defender of her neighborhood. "A lot of people get scared of where we live," she says. "I don't think there's nothing wrong."

A lot of Los Angeles residents agree. They've been moving into loft apartments in rehabbed old commercial buildings just a block away from Breveleri and Brown's hotel...