During the Middle Ages, you could only study law, medicine, or religion. The Renaissance brought rebellion and lauded the well-rounded person. Have we returned to the Middle Ages today?
At the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, budding creatives over age 55 take advantage of art and sculpture studios, a digital film editing lab, an outdoor performance space, and a 45-seat theater.
“I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to. I’m not playing at being a champion.” A 100-year-old cyclist and two nonagenarian yoginis define what really matters.
Mary Granville Delany was born to the upper crust, married to a ogre, and was left almost penniless. Yet she found the love of her life at age 43 and began her life’s work at age 72, when she invented the art of mixed-media collage.
At age 17, Mary Granville Delany was married off to a ogre who died and left her penniless seven year later. Yet at 43, she found her soulmate, and at 72, invented mixed-media collage.
From World War II battlefields to freezing Bering Sea research to Pan Am World Airways glamor, Don Mittelstaedt has shot it all. His life reads like a movie and at age 92, he’s made one!
Welcome! I'm Debra Eve, proud late bloomer and possessor of many passions.
At 36, I became an archaeologist. At 42, a martial artist. At 46, I married the love of my life! Now I write about fellow late bloomers while plotting my next grand adventure. {Read more}
In 1942, the U.S. Army called up a skinny California boy barely out of his teens. At 5’9’’ and 125 lbs, Pfc Glenn Eve was then deemed unfit for combat.
Dad might have spent World War II at a desk, but the Army needed his field skills. He was a gifted artist and photographer who’d trained four years with Walt Disney Co. You can see his poignant image collection here.