Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interaction with different types of people, with different interests, goals and perspectives, that enriched our summers. Also, in a community with little diversity of age, hopefully the summer offered an opportunity to take long walks with grandparents, sip tea with the elderly or hear what it was like to be young in the good old days...
...playing with kids half my age was a refreshing break from angst-ridden twenty-somethings. Outside the Old City in Jerusalem, I found a group of ten year-old Arab boys, who always played soccer in the late afternoon. I became a regular member of their pick up games, trying to ignore the stares of tourists and passers...
...truism of the psychologizing age that a book tells us as much about its author as about its subject. And the authentic power of For Common Things resides not in the originality of Purdy's thesis but rather in the not-at-all-incidental portrait of Jedidiah Purdy. The book is filled with autobiographical detail, and with confessions that spring from a mind uninterested in artifice and concealment: it is the example of Purdy's love of common things, rather than his sometimes boring case studies in the downfall of public culture, that proves effective...
...dying to bust a New Age vibe but can't handle the yoga or needles, settle for an Aromapharmacy candle. Available at Jasmine-Sola (37 Brattle St.), the candles are packaged in amberglass jars that look like oversized prescription pill containers. The candles contain scented oils to set a desired mood, each oil having its own healing power. Choose from candle options like "Valiumello" or the "Niagra" which promises to aid "in getting your groove...
Everyone knows that waterbeds are tacky. But dangerous? Well, maybe for babies. A new study from the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission indicates that children under the age of two are more likely to die while sleeping with their parents - particularly in waterbeds - than in their own cribs. Over the course of eight years, 515 children died as a result of mishaps in their parents? beds, versus 400 who were killed by accidents in a crib. These fatalities are separate from so-called crib deaths - or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - where young children die for no apparent reason. Particularly...