Tag Archives: changing aging

A Body-Building Champion Helps Build Senior Bodies

Martin Luther King Addo is a two-time winner of the Mr. Ghana bodybuilding championship. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1999 and became a certified personal trainer. He now works out of his own storefront gym that he opened last summer inside Southbridge Towers, … Continue reading

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Worth Repeating: What Happens When Seniors are Paroled from Prison?

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 6/30 /13: “California houses one of the country’s biggest populations of elderly … Continue reading

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Astronomer Frank Drake Searches for Life Among the Stars

From National Geographic: Astronomer Frank Drake helped found the science of astrobiology in the 1960s by searching for radio broadcasts from alien civilizations. Now 84, he’s got a new target: flashes from alien light sources. “We know how to do … Continue reading

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Experience Talks 6/28: Robert Peng

Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on … Continue reading

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Poets & Writers, Inc. Funds Two EngAGE Poetry Classes

From EngAGE C.O.O. Maureen Kellen-Taylor: At EngAGE we believe in Poetry ! Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Joseph Roux . . .  it  is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt. – Audre Lorde We suspect … Continue reading

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Jim Corcoran Joins EngAGE as Programs Manager in Portland, Oregon

Jim Corcoran will be the new Programs Manager for EngAGE at Hazelwood Retirement Community in Portland, Oregon. He is a ‘Jazz Missionary’ who founded the Willamette Jazz Society in 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, and later New Land Jazz LLC, which … Continue reading

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Jersey Boys Make It to the Big Screen

“Jersey Boys,” the rags-to-riches-to-rags Broadway musical about Frankie Valli & the Four Seaso‎ns, transitions from stage to film under the direction of Clint Eastwood [84]. “I approached this as a drama about guys and just what they do is sing … Continue reading

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