I admit, I’m not quite ready to go el natural and let my hair go gray. I admit to dying it as soon as the roots started showing. And I’m not happy with that decision because I think the dye isn’t good for me but yet my vanity is winning out for now… anyway – this is so strange to me but young people are now dying their hair to gray. One salon stylist say – it conveys wisdom and intelligence. The celebrities included Kelly Osbourne (Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter), Pink, Kate Moss and others. This is still not convincing me to change my ways, but I’ve always admired gray hair on some people. They usually have nice thick wavy hair to start with and when they gray comes in it’s more of an attractive silver. Not me – I have the coarse, dull, straight type of gray hair. One of these days…..
Sam English would never describe himself in that timeworn phrase, “the tortured artist,” but he truly is — or was. He spent the first 40 years of his life running from art, embracing alcoholism in his run from the creative. Sam has spent the first chapters of his life as an alcoholic, the later chapters — the one of deep creativity — as an artist and an activist in the healing work of the recovery movement.
I had a great respect for this artist and was a fan of his art which has a very distinctive and easy to recognize style. Sam English is a 70 year old Native American artist. His style has a contemporary feel to it. I was under the impression the Sam English was a fairly young artist when I first discovered his work.
I recently ran across his life story in a local magazine only to find out that his life is as painting style. Instead of beginning his art career at an early age as most artists start off. English began his art career at the surprising age of 39. Prior to that English had a drinking problem. He is now a recovering alcoholic and it wasn’t until he found sobriety that Sam began his art career in earnest. [click to continue…]
Hopefully you’ve been a conscientious and safe motorcyclist. With that in mind, many riders are admitting that handling a big heavy bike isn’t as easy as it used to be. Baby boomers moving into their senior years are looking for modifications to address these safety issues. The problem is declining capacity in the categories of strength, endurance, reaction time, vision and orthopedic problems. It is more difficult to pick up and balance a heavy bike as our muscle mass shrinks. [click to continue…]
Natural born entrepreneurs find opportunities in their everyday lives. When eighty two year old Samuelson Auh was having problems using the available search engines, his granddaughter saw a need that she felt she could meet. She began her own search engine that specifically makes surfing easier for seniors. It’s called good50.com and has an easy to read screen with options to increase the font size to make the screen even easier to read. Although, this feature did not work for me. It also has an option that is for low vision visitors. It reverses the colors to white text on black background. [click to continue…]
Another medical breakthrough. They just keep coming. It may bring back memories of Star Trek and Bones holding up a portable device a few inches away from his patient and getting all sorts of vital information. Our health care providers will soon be using a similar gadget. It’s a handheld device that can diagnose a wide range of viral and bacterial illnesses. This will eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming lab tests. The device is called the biosensor and it can identify HIV, H1N1, and other pathogens. They predict the commercial version will be for sale within 2 years. [click to continue…]
I live in an area where many doctors have closed practices while others have a waiting period of 3 month or more to get your first initial exam. Many doctors are overwhelmed and overbooked with patients. Even when you’ve become a patient, the wait time for getting to see a doctor can be longer than you feel comfortable with but you can’t do anything about. In some cases, getting to your appointment may be a hardship. Now, with the help of advanced technology, a new national system call the NowClinic is being implemented by Optum Health. The only items that a patience needs to take advantage is a computer or a phone. The cost is $45 for a ten minute chat with your doctor. [click to continue…]
I admit, I’m not quite ready to go el natural and let my hair go gray. I admit to dying it as soon as the roots started showing. And I’m not happy with that decision because I think the dye isn’t good for me but yet my vanity is winning out for now… anyway – this is so strange to me but young people are now dying their hair to gray. One salon stylist say – it conveys wisdom and intelligence. The celebrities included Kelly Osbourne (Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter), Pink, Kate Moss and others. This is still not convincing me to change my ways, but I’ve always admired gray hair on some people. They usually have nice thick wavy hair to start with and when they gray comes in it’s more of an attractive silver. Not me – I have the coarse, dull, straight type of gray hair. One of these days…..
