Life Done Right™

New York City is filled with characters who, if you have a couple of minutes, will fill your ear with how to make the world a better place. One such person, apparently, is a gray-haired lady who sits on a bench outside a 14th Street tailor’s shop. Customers come and go but not without the [...]

© Christopher Peterson
I caught this couple kissing on the opening night of Club Touch on 52nd Street in New York City. Rolls Royces were parked out front and the doormen were busy eyeballing the hottest babes lined up down the street. When the booze flows, anything is possible in the dark, until the flash pops! [...]

Anyone who visited New York City after the Twin Towers fell would probably describe the mood of its residents as stunned yet unconsciously resilient. Language, the act of using words to describe the tragedy, didn’t seem to get the job done. Instead, musicians appeared all over the city and encouraged people to stop and listen [...]

© Christopher Peterson
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York offers one of summer’s true pleasures: stunning views of Central Park and the city’s skyline. Go at dusk so you get to watch the skyscrapers around Central Park flick on their lights. The Met has two bars set [...]

Senior citizens living in Albany, New York rejoice! There is an organization designed to cater to your needs as you grow older. Senior Services of Albany offers the following:
* Adult Day Care
* Caregiver Connection
* Community Dining
* ElderSource Line
* Enrichment Programs
* Meals on Wheels
* Shopping Assistance & Visits
* Transportation
* Volunteer Services
Senior Services of Albany
25 Delaware Ave
Albany, [...]

Growing older usually means losing the ability to perform all your daily living functions with the same energy and enthusiasm that once existed. The thought of getting in the car to drive to the grocery store, for example, can be a logistical nightmare for someone who has poor vision, arthritis, or worse, early dementia. Fortunately [...]

© Christopher Peterson
It doesn’t get any easier running a 10K race as you age. I was in New York over the weekend and discovered the New York Road Runners 10K race which finished in Central Park. Here’s one of the older runners showing the humidity taking its toll.

Sandy Krasnow is a designer who says, “To me, there is no more beautiful work than creating a beautiful life for myself.” Style never ages!

Growing older sometimes means logic escapes your everyday thinking. The metropolitan diary in the New York Times offers two humorous stories about the “elderly.” In one case, an elderly woman waiting for a bus is confused about where to wait for the bus, since the sign above reads “no standing”; try sitting, honey. The other [...]

For those of you heading to New York, check out The Year of Magical Thinking starring Vanessa Redgrave as Joan Didion. The play is about how Joan Didion’s husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, suddenly died from a massive coronary as they sat down to eat dinner. What makes it even more poignant [...]

The HBA is offering an Anti-Aging Conference in New York City at the Crown Plaza Hotel from March 21-22, 2006. This is the place to be if you want to tap into the growing obsession with Baby Boomers grasping to hang on to their youth.
The pitch:
An unparalleled forum, the Anti-Aging Conference will focus on the [...]

New York Foundation for Senior Citizens
New York Foundation for Senior Citizens is dedicated to helping New York’s seniors enjoy healthier, safer, more productive and dignified lives in their own homes and communities and to help them avoid the need for premature institutionalization.
11 Park Place, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10007
212-962-7559

For all you non-subscribers to New York magazine, buy the December 11th issue. It contains an excellent guide to elderly services in New York City. It covers all the usual suspects like nursing homes, retirement communities and advice on how live off a fixed income in an expensive city. Kudos for such a fine guide [...]

© Frick Museum
François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
A Lady on Her Day Bed , 1743
oil on canvas
22 1/2 in. x 26 7/8 i
Nothing like temporarily forgetting the sins of our government by taking a virtual tour of the Frick Museum in New York on a lazy Sunday refreshed by an extra hour of sleep.

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François-René de Chateaubriand, 1808
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Oil on canvas; 47 1/4 x 37 13/16 in. (120 x 96 cm)
Musée d’Histoire et d’Ethnographie, Saint-Malo
Visit the Metropolitan Museum
If you’re in New York, a visit to the Metropolitan Museum is worth a trip to see the Girodet exhibition. It closes August 27, 2006. Be sure to hit [...]

WWD: One of your more well-known songs from the Carlyle show is “You’re Too Young to Be Meant for Me,” in which you reject “fair-haired boys” in favor of a 73-year-old millionaire. Have you found your own real-life sugar daddy who can take you to Malibu, the Hamptons and Capri?

Eartha Kitt: The audience. I can [...]

The magician David Blaine is set to perform another publicity stunt under the guise of magic. The act is called Drowned Alive. If you’re in New York City near Lincoln Center Plaza, be sure to stop by in the next week and check him out. On the 7th day, he will attempt to break the [...]

It’s tough being broke and facing retirement. The cost of living keeps rising. Energy is soaring. Who knows, maybe the city will start charging for the right to sleep on top of a grate with warm air flowing up through it — that is, of course, as long as there’s not a jolt of electricity [...]