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...best epiphanies happen at breakfast—those thunderbolts that hit while you’re waiting zombie-like in front of the waffle iron. I’ve brainstormed English papers at breakfast; I’ve solved elusive crossword clues and figured out what to get my dad for Christmas. Naturally, it was at this fateful time of the morning that I answered the question that has plagued me for months: What the hell am I going to do after I graduate...
...here I sit on my sunny terrace. There's a soda-water fountain and the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, just like in the song. I sit in my pajamas and work the Times crossword and sip peppermint tea and, it being almost Labor Day, I sit and think about work. And then I write a limerick. Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing...
...facility. The Levangs kept Dolores at Alterra for as long as they could stand it. In February 2000, after 11 months, they gave up and moved Dolores into her own apartment with a full-time aide. Now 80, Dolores spends most of her time reading romance novels and doing crossword puzzles. She goes for lengthy strolls daily--without using her walker...
Like any organ, the brain needs constant attention. Keep exercising your mental muscle by learning a new skill, doing a crossword puzzle or, like the nuns, playing card games and tutoring schoolchildren...
...certainly does to David Rasmussen. Four months after his operation, he's glad to be alive and happy to feel as sharp as he does. "I'm back to working the New York Times crossword," he says. "I think I got the better part of the bargain...