David Blake takes us on a wild midnight adventure from posh Woodside to the tattoo parlor frequented by Hells Angels. Maggy Gorrill shares a 4 a.m. brain dump of insomnia and menopause. Hal George remembers a single thank you note that shaped his career, growth, and love, and Maggy Gorrill joins us a second time to reflect on mentoring a shy student abroad and the lasting power of a dance lesson.
A boozy Woodside dinner sends six “tattoo virgins” to a midnight parlor, where three brave wives get inked, three husbands balk, and one Hell’s Angel offers his hand.
Late life love, seniors who fall in love, experience the same passion and fascination as younger people who are in love. Seniors don’t always marry; they don’t always have sex; but they find themselves more intimately connected than ever before. What do we have to learn from people who’ve learned what really matters?
Michael Lewis’ “The Parlour Maid’s Pearls” is the story of a house maid who’s given a lovely string of double pearls for her wedding. “Skateboarding with Billy” and “The Fight” describe our “go-outside-and-play” generation of children’s games.
Each of these stories is about trying something new. Mo Ose tried meeting a new person every day for a year, while Pieter Pastoor tried new bedding, a duvet, and it changed his life. David Blake tried poetry for the first time, then thought better of it.
