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Does aging damp down our emotions and sexuality? Don't believe it, says photographer Laura Kleinhenz, who has roamed Florida's retirement havens in search of senior romance. Older people, she says, "have a level of needs and passion that most people are completely unaware of." The moments she has captured, from a dating auction to a bedroom embrace, are punctuated by grace, fun and touches of fire. With Valentine's Day approaching, they remind us that love is not only possible at any age, but necessary. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
Phillipa Kafka certainly wasn't. Kafka, 70, a former professor of English literature at Kean University in Union, N.J., and her husband Oliver Kenen, 56, a former high school physics teacher, moved to Boulder City, Nev., after retirement. There they turned a long-standing passion for design, decoration and fixing up old homes into a business by starting Boulder City Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka...
Myrvaagnes says he was struck by the pain and passion in the man’s tale and with the other participants at Bread and Jams. Myrvaagnes scripted a one-act play about the man’s experience. They rehearsed and scheduled a performance for Oct. 2001 outside the Holyoke Center to coincide with the opening of a new art installation there...
...There’s just not many people who have that passion for playing this game,” Barmore said. “I’ve only had two or three. I’ve had two or three that might have been playing more, but man, ain’t nobody been bigger at heart than that...
...fans trumpet it as a kind of national symbol, in much the same way that we associate purring BMWs with German efficiency, racy Ferraris with Italian passion, and big, loud SUVS with big, loud Americans. Like Thailand, the tuk tuk is noisy, smoky and sometimes dangerous. Like some of the kingdom's politicians, it's prone to sudden, inexplicable changes of direction. And like the Thai economy, it needs a lot of tinkering and sometimes its wheels fall off completely...