Tag Archives: creative aging

The EngAGE Senior Olympics “Best Ever!”

Everyone agrees that this year’s EngAGE Senior Olympics were fabulous! Congratulations to the Gold Medal Championship winners: Long Beach Senior Arts Colony! And thanks to Helene Weinberg, Creative Programs Director at LBSAC,  for putting together this 10 minute video of the … Continue reading →

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Worth Repeating: “Good Ol’ Freda” Was Secretary to The Beatles

“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 10/2/13: “Behind a great band, there was a great woman,” says the … Continue reading →

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Experience Talks: KPFK Fund Drive

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 … Continue reading →

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Willie Nelson Profiled

“He is one of America’s greatest songwriters, a hero from Texas to San Francisco, a hippie’s hippie and a redneck’s redneck. But does anyone really know Willie Nelson?” Read more here in Rolling Stone’s “definitive profile of the country icon.” Nelson celebrated … Continue reading →

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Artist Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. Her career as a photographer includes documenting the lives of the Seri Indians, a group of fisherman living a nomadic lifestyle in the Sonora desert in the north west of Mexico, … Continue reading →

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Simple English Pleasures as Told through Winnie-the-Pooh

Currently circulating online is a post from Buzzfeed: “These Are The 10 Best Simple English Pleasures As Told Through Winnie-The-Pooh,” featuring lovely drawings taken from “Return to the Hundred Acre Wood,” the first authorized sequel to the A. A. Milne … Continue reading →

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Elmer Long’s Bottletree Ranch

  Elmer’s Bottletree Ranch is literally a forest of bottle trees (large metal pipes with bottles hanging from them), located along the Mother Road, Route 66, right in the heart of the California desert. Click here for a photo album … Continue reading →

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