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3 weeks ago | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Victoria Starr Marshall |David Nemetz
By Dasha Kiper Reviewed by Victoria Starr Marshall It’s a journey we hope we’ll never take—becoming a traveler in the land of dementia or the caregiver to a friend or loved one traveling that path. Each journey is unique—there are no maps or guides, and no caregiving friend or family member on this journey is unaffected. In Travelers to Unimaginable Lands, Dasha Kiper writes, “Dementia disorders may bring chaos, devastation, and loss, but the mind is not without its defenses.
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3 weeks ago | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Connie McDougall |David Nemetz
“Most travelers I know, they’re proud to be known as a traveler as opposed to a tourist: ‘I’m more thoughtful—I’m not just here to shop and get a selfie. I’m here to immerse myself in the culture and learn.’ That is a traveler, to become a temporary local.
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3 weeks ago | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Debra Eckerling |David Nemetz
Susan Feniger’s third act looks a lot like her second. For 40 years, the 71-year-old celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and radio and TV personality has traveled the world, bringing food from different cultures back to her several influential Los Angeles restaurants—past and present—including: Ciudad, STREET, Border Grill, and SOCALO.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | David Nemetz
By Christina Clem, AARP Washington Associate State DirectorScam artists have a shiny, new tool to take your hard-earned money, and while the nature of the scam remains consistent – often preying on our emotions or manufacturing a sense of urgency – the method of getting your money is evolving with technology.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | David Nemetz
By Chris Palmer Reviewed by Victoria Starr Marshall Chris Palmer knows how to live. An author, speaker, wildlife filmmaker, conservationist, professor, and grandfather, he is very clear that his time on earth is limited and he’s not going to waste one precious minute of it.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Ann Conroy Randall |David Nemetz
Your community senior center. Have you ever ventured inside? No? Perhaps because your engaged lifestyle doesn’t include Bingo, square dancing, and sing-alongs. Senior centers have noted your absence and are reinventing themselves to adapt to a more diverse and active older adult demographic. It’s a complicated change for an institution that began post-WWII as an answer to the urban isolation of older adults.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Misha Berson |David Nemetz
It certainly may be a sweeping cliché to say that we Boomers are (collectively) bigger readers than our children and their offspring. And of course, even if this is true, there are many exceptions, including my own daughter who is a voracious consumer of books. Also, it’s important to note that e-books and audio books have been a great success for those who don’t need or want a physical volume in their hands to peruse—young folk and many seniors alike.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Rebecca Crichton |David Nemetz
You say “Boomers.” I say “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll!” I also say: “Lentil Loaf and Tofurkey. And Vegetarian, Vegan, Macrobiotic, and Organic.” If you relate to those foods and labels, you might remember how they became familiar when the Boomer generation, with its accompanying seismic social changes, were redefining American culture and cuisine.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Robert Hirschfield |David Nemetz
I met Sharon two years ago. She was bent over Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. We were waiting in the yard of a residential building in lower Manhattan for our tai chi class to begin. My brain froze with every instructed movement shift. Her bad knee gimped heroically in an effort to keep pace. I never went back. We spoke a bit afterwards. We discovered we both wrote poetry. She mentioned the magic name, Frank O’ Hara, and I felt a door open.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Rebecca Crichton |David Nemetz
A mother-daughter conversation about aging, care support, and end-of-life. Rebecca Crichton’s life stage and encore career align with her volunteer interests in aging and the field of hospice and end-of-life care. As Executive Director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging (NWCCA) in Seattle, she designs programs and presentations that incorporate information and practices related to successful aging and its inevitable endpoint.
