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Staying at home: considerations for elders and their caregivers
May 2012
By Gina M. Barry
Bacon & Wilson. P. C.
Special to PRIME
Many elders live independently and fiercely guard the
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'Building Memories' 100 years strong
May 2012
By Jane D. O'Donoghue
PRIME guest columnist
Seasonal announcements of high school proms, graduations, sympho
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Take it from Rivers, retirement won't keep you happy
May 2012
By G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com
Hey Baby Boomers, do you remember "retirement?" The example that was a
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AARP seeking nominations for community service award
May, 2012
By Linda F. Fitzgerald
AARP State President
Special to PRIME
Think for a moment. Who do you know, in y
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There are natural alternatives to statin drugs
May, 2012
By Jonathan Evans
Herbal Information Specialist/Business Representative for the Herbarium
Special to PRIME
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Joan Rivers: A life in motion and loving it
May 2012
By G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com
Joan Rivers is in a state of motion, which appears to be, looking at her schedule on her website, a typical status for her.
"We're going through a tunnel. But if we get cut off, I'll call you right back," she promised.
As I spoke to her on April 10, she told me she was in a car heading to New Jersey, where she appeared on QVC promoting her successful line of women's fashion accessories.
Then on April 11, she flew to California to prepare for the taping of her hit E! show "Fashion Police.," She taped the show on April 12 and later that day appeared with fellow comic legend Don Rickles at a casino. Then she was back on the East Coast for a succession of appearances in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont before heading back to the West Coast.
Whew.
One of her stops will be at Worcester's Hanover Theater for the Performing Arts on May 22 for her show "My Life in Show Business; 135 Years and Counting."
How does she do it? At age 79, why does she do it?
Rivers said that she must have Attention Deficit Disorder.
"I get very bored. I like conquering mountains," she told PRIME. When confronted with a new project her reaction is, "OK, of course we can do it."
"Conquering mountains" has been standard operating procedure for Rivers for all of her career.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, Rivers did aspire to do something inconceivable for a woman in the early 1960s: become a comic. She worked for seven years before receiving her big break in 1968 when Johnny Carson
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For director Anne Renton, this was 'The Perfect Family'
May 2012
By G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com
When director Anne Renton read the script of her new film "The Perfec
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Tony Award-winning play staged at Majestic Theater
May, 2012
WEST SPRINGFIELD - "The 39 Steps," an acclaimed comedy/mystery based on the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the
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16 Acres Garden Center marks 50th anniversary
May, 2012
By Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
SPRINGFIELD — Not long ago, Judy Bordenuk, business manager at Sixte
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