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...neither afford nor find the time for while we were raising our families. Professionally, we'll be called upon as part-time consultants by younger workers eager for the wisdom born of experience, or we will generously donate our time and skills to our favorite causes. Our children and grandchildren, so pleased with how well Mom and Pop are doing, will visit often, each time drinking thirstily from the vessels of kindly wisdom that we have miraculously become...
Many of you readers will graduate college this week. More accurately, many of you have grandchildren who will graduate this week, and I ask you to pass this on to them with your cold, brittle, liver-spotted hands. For even though no university, junior college or turtle/pirate/parrot-drawing-by-mail school responded to my offer to deliver a commencement speech, I have advice far more useful than applying sunscreen or respecting your elders...
...Silk, the gifted self-liberator in Philip Roth's new novel, The Human Stain (Houghton Mifflin; 368 pages; $26), you first tell your fiance that your widowed mother is dead when she is not. Then you tell your mother that she will never be allowed to see her future grandchildren...
Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
...SURFERS While older Americans are often seen as technophobic,the latest studies, including Microsoft's Senior Initiative, show that they are taking to the Internet faster than any other age group. Many have discovered e-mail as a fast and easy way to communicate with friends and relatives, especially grandchildren. Seniors also use the Net to research genealogy, manage their finances, shop and plan trips. Seniors can learn more about cyberspace and how to use it with online tutorials at senior-net.com...