Steve Lopez
Columnist at Los Angeles Times
Columnist Steve Lopez is the author of "Independence Day," a memoir about retirement, and the best-selling "The Soloist." https://t.co/CdGTmYMdhR
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5 days ago |
latimes.com | Steve Lopez
Rosa Maria Juarez, center, participates in a stretching class at the Pico Rivera Senior Center. She worries that “the country is going down the tubes.”Montebello resident Rosa Maria Juarez, 96, doesn’t like what’s happening to the country, and in these tumultuous times, she has a strategy for getting through each day. “I’ve always kept up with the news, but I don’t want to watch it now,” Juarez said.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Steve Lopez
Members of Seniors for Peace and the Democratic Club staff a booth providing information about an upcoming demonstration at Leisure World in Seal Beach. If you keep messing with Social Security, Seal Beach Leisure World is coming for you.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Steve Lopez
I was driving through Westlake, on my way to pay Nathaniel Anthony Ayers a visit at his nursing home, when it hit me. My God. Has it been 20 years? Hard to believe, but yes. The year was 2005. It was around noon, as I recall, on a drizzly, late-winter day. I heard music in Pershing Square, followed the sound and spotted him next to a shopping cart heaped over with his belongings.
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1 month ago |
lasvegassun.com | Steve Lopez
Toothbrushes. Slippers. Hearing aids. Walkers. One day you have all of your stuff. The next day it’s gone, and you’re starting from scratch — something you never expected to be doing in your 70s, or 80s, or 90s. “We had to go buy underwear the first day,” said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that’s serving as a temporary home.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Steve Lopez
One day you have all of your stuff. The next day it’s gone, and you’re starting from scratch — something you never expected to be doing in your 70s, or 80s, or 90s. “We had to go buy underwear the first day,” said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that’s serving as a temporary home. She bought a couch, a kitchen table, some lamps and a new bed for Tommy, her 13-year-old terrier.
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