Quick Start to Keeping Kurrent

Our lives are busy. Keeping Kurrent is the place where you can listen to short, reasonably in depth interviews and presentations about a variety of issues, ideas and trends are helpful to you. You are invited to take a quick look some of the broad issues we cover by clicking on the items listed below. Or, you can also examine the details for each category by checking the statements on the right hand side of this page.

• Quality Communities
• Fine Arts
• Education
• Environment
• Food Security
• Travel
• Your Health Matters
• Seniors and Boomers Speak Up

 

Portland

Time in Portland, Oregon

 

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Mark Smythe - business man talked about his business experience.

You can hear his story right here. Double click on Smythe's story.

Angel Radio

BBC World radio aired a program about people's interest in living until they are at least 100 or more years old. There was a variety of responses both positive and qualified. There seemed to be one theme that carried through the discussion. It was, "If I'm fit and healthy this would be all right. However, if I'm just existing then living through that time would be intolerable." One of the respondents was a person from England who wanted to talk about Angel Radio. I checked the web site and found it interesting. Angel Radio is a station operated and run by seniors. I think that you would like to hear their streaming audio. Check their web site out.

Pictures are from the Radio Museum.

 

 

Page last modified on Oct. 6, 2009.

Seniors and Boomers Speak Out

There are a lot of web sites that provide links to other sites where you can find views about issues that concern boomers and seniors. However, the Keeping Kurrent web site will be place where you find knowledgeable professionals and seniors talking about what it means to mature and grow older. There are a lot of boomers and seniors in the United States who can provide valuable insight into the issues we face. So, on this site you will hear from public members of government commissions, from professionals who work with seniors, from political leaders and from boomers and seniors who will tell you what they think about today's world. Of course you'll need a computer, however, more than a 1/3rd of seniors have some skills with computers.Growing older in today's society has not meant sitting back and sitting in a rocking chair. It is being physically active in water aerobics, running marathons, swimming, and even playing pickleball.

Have you ever wondered what the tooth fairy looked like?

(courtesy of http://www.pmcaregivers.com/Humor.htm) Take a look at more humorous pictures.

Senior Writers Tell Their Stories

Six residents of Willamette Manor, a retirement center in Milwaukee, Oregon, spent the good part of a recent, May afternoon reading stories. The stories came from a publication entitled Times of Our Lives. These were the stories that they wrote as part of a special project around the year 2000.

The readers included:

Laverne Smith told two stories. They were both based on his war experiences. The first story was one his feelings about leaving his wife behind to go to war. This story was entitled The High Point and Low Point.

Smith's second story was about some battlefield experiences. It was entitled The German 88.

Adel Longmore wrote about the depression years. Her story was entitled My Early Family House.

Martha May Newell also told a story based on her experience after W.W.II. Her story was entitled What Would You Take With You?

Thelma ( Tommy) Eberwein talked about her experiences during the U.S. Depression. Thelma entitled her story, The Day the Banks Closed.

Mary J. Craig explored her childhood home and her return to it in her story, Living at a Fish Hatchery.

Finally, Katherine Wimmer shared two stories. One story entitled Those Were the Days shared her remembrances about some of this country's civil rights issues. Her second story, Skiing On Mt. Hood, was a reminder of her prowess on this mountain.

Take time to listen to these short stories by clicking on the story titles.