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Letter From The Editor:
Welcome to NYCPlus
Greetings! And welcome to NYCPlus, New York City’s first general interest magazine for and about New Yorkers in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and – I kid you not – 100s.
Written by Andy Humm
NYC Plus presents a monthly round-up of news and events that have the greatest impact our lives.
REFLECTION
Halfway Through The Ride
By Wickham Boyle
In ancient Rome there was a two-headed God named Janus whose job it was to protect doorways. Janus had an ancillary responsibility as well, which was to look back at the year that passed, and forward at the one to come.
HUMOR
One Man’s Exit Strategy
By Kent Doyle
It’s not that I don’t have a retirement strategy; it’s that my plan is a bit unconventional and it isn’t working out. I know what a 401K is, sort of, but I’ve never personally owned one.
COMMENTARY
Aging or Ageism:
Do Words Make a Difference?
By Arthur Y. Webb
A friend of mine said to me the other day that he planned to retire at 59, and was emphatic about not becoming an “older” person.
MONEY
Rising Interest Rates and Why We Should Care
By Don Conrad and Hammid Firoozeh
A new client of ours recently came into some unforeseen money. With the desire to act wisely and give his cash the opportunity to grow, he told us that he wanted to invest in “something safe.”
PROFILE
Cartoonist...Playwright...Author...
By Jerry Tallmer
Forty-four years ago, when Jules Feiffer was 32 and indispensable as a weekly zeitgeist cartoonist for The Village Voice – was indeed the central nervous system of that high-adventure Eisenhower-era breakthrough in journalism – he wrote a 35-minute play called Crawling Arnold for Chicago’s Second City improvisational troupe.
MEMOIR
By Deborah Emin
Every experience in our lives has a beginning, a middle, and an end. In tracing the trajectory of my experiences as a schizophrenic there was certainly a clear beginning. However, it is only now that the experience has ended that I know its mid-point and its real ending.
ESSAY
By Vivian Gornick
The British art critic, John Berger, in an influential book called Ways of Seeing observed that in our culture: men watch and women are watched. Think about that for a moment.
FEATURE
By Meryl Green
A modern dancer, feet unprotected by pretty pink ballet slippers, by hot tap or cool jazz shoes, seriously abuses her feet throughout her career. It comes with the territory. Allowing the toes to spread wide in support of an aesthetic which embraced rooting deeply into the ground and pushing firmly skyward, our founding mothers sought the more natural look and feel of earth beneath their feet.
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WORK
Offering Comfort At Both Ends of The Life Cycle
By Laura C. Girardi
Susan Tapley’s doctor delivered the disturbing diagnosis in November 2003: He told the divorced 53-year-old grandmother that he had spotted pre-cancerous cells during a routine gynecological exam.
HOME
This is The Life:
The Hallmark Has It All
By Timothy Lavin
Visitors to the Hallmark, an upscale senior residence in Battery Park City, could be forgiven for lingering.
M
EMORY
Seems a Bit Drafty Around Here
By Stephen Zanichkowsky
Ah, yes, each generation must have its war. My father’s was the Second World War; his father’s was the Bolshevik revolution.