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catch some trade winds. This is my last edition as editor of Lifestyles After 50. For 18 years I have writ-ten, scrounged, bought, created, and otherwise attained articles to fill the pages of the five editions of this senior magazine. I went from classroom teacher to proofreading for publisher, Kathy Beck. Soon I was at the editor’s desk, and I have worked with Kathy ever since. I met incredible seniors over the years and added a treasure trove of good memories to my life. I met grandparents struggling with raising grandchildren. I interviewed 85-year-olds still playing softball and artists creating their late-life dream works. I shared in our readers’ great joys and extreme sorrows as the years went by. I not only published articles about senior issues, I personally experienced the death to cancer of my fi rst husband Tom and eight years later married David, whom I met online. With Kathy, I moved in the publish-ing world from page layouts glued

to old fashioned “boards” to the computer age. Amazing changes. I interviewed long-time entertainers like Dick Smothers and Chubby Checker. Frankie Avalon and Phyllis Diller. Andy Williams’ agent called me at 9 p.m. the night before I was to interview him. She told me to call the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco at 9 a.m. Pacifi c Time and ask for Paul Smith in room 914. I did, and Andy himself answered. When I talked with Florence Hender-son, she turned the interview around after about 10 minutes and said, “What about you? Tell me about yourself.” I remember how that made me feel. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex advice guru, singled me out in a group over lunch and said, “If I weren’t under contract to Clairol until I die, I’d have hair the color of Janice’s. I think nothing is more fl attering than white hair as we age.” Truth is, I’m simply too lazy and too cheap to color my hair—never have, never will. And then to get such a compliment from Dr. Ruth—I found it all very amusing. There was the 90+ year-old WWII Army nurse I traveled to Washington with on an Honor Flight. From meeting her at 4 a.m. to delivering her back to the airport at 9 p.m. was not enough time to get to spend with the charming lady.

What next, you ask? There are children and grandchildren to enjoy, siblings to connect with more regularly, cousins to get re-acquainted with—important family things. David and I will be traveling for longer periods of time but keeping a garden and a little fl ock of chickens here in Florida. I plan to be a curious traveler, a friendly neighbor and a compassionate friend. And I’ll still be covering the veterans issues and travel for this magazine. So, here I go—like so many of you have done—throwing off the bowlines of regular employment. I’m handing over the editor’s desk to Tracie Schmidt who has been associate editor for seven years and can handle anything that comes along. My best to all of you.

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What is a citizen scientist? “There’s so much data that can be collected; one scientist can’t possibly collect all the data that they need. This is a way that the general public can contribute to science and support whatever research they are doing,” says Lara Miller, Natural Resource Agent for Pinellas County. A citizen scientist can be anyone with a passion for the outdoors or a curiosity about natural sciences with some free time to spend in the field taking notes.

There are no qualifications needed, outside of a short training session. “Each citizen science program has its own method and data collection sheet,” she says. “A good place to look for projects that interest you is Scistarter.org.” You can create an account, browse programs and download fact sheets that explain what you’re looking for and how to submit your findings. It’s also a way to stay connected to other citizen scientists and see what projects are going on all over the world.

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From C-rations… In 1966, Frank Mitchell, or “Mitch” was drafted and ended up as a cook in Mannheim, Germany, for the 51st Transportation Co. when he was 19. He didn’t know anything about cooking, but says, “I seemed to have a knack for it, and I wanted to know more.” One day a month was C-ration Day when all mess halls were expected to cook every meal using the packaged rations left from WWII and Korean War days. “In the morning, we’d fry up rehydrated potatoes. There were scrambled reconstituted eggs. I always snuck in some real eggs so the guys would have a good breakfast. There’d be canned hot dogs for lunch. Oh, those were awful. Then we had a lot of rations we mixed for stews at night.” GIs everywhere remember “going on maneuvers.” For cooks like Mitch, it

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My mother is 91, blind, has diabetes, arthritis, Parkinson’s,

mild dementia and heart problems, but besides that she’s in perfect health. I visit her three times a week at her assisted living facility. Sometimes I only stay for a few minutes but I still count it as a visit because I want to think of myself as a good son. And when I bring her bottles of juice or vitamins and the caregivers say, “Oh you got the good kind,” I feel like I am almost a saint. I know, I’m being an idiot trying to build up points for myself, but that’s who I am. I’m worried that the dementia is getting worse. My mom tries to hide it but she sometimes gets confused about what’s going on around her. To help keep her mind sharp I always try to have a conversation with her to jog her memory. I don’t mind doing it. Like I said, I’m almost a saint.

We usually talk about Brooklyn.That’s where my mom was born and I grew up. “Do you remember what we did there for fun?” I ask. She nods but doesn’t answer. “We went to the movies,” I tell her. “In those days there was a double feature and a cartoon and I remember I got in for a quarter.” “Movies are $2 now,” she says. Of course I don’t correct her. Like I said, I’m almost a saint. “We also saw Broadway plays,” I tell her. “Yes, we went to plays.” I could tell she was just repeating what I said so I asked, “Do you remember what kind of plays?” She was thinking but didn’t come up with an answer. “Musicals,” I said. “Musicals,” she repeated. “Yes,” I said, “we went to musicals like Oklahoma and South Pacific.” I started to sing “OOOklahoma…”

“You’ve got a terrible voice,” she said and laughed. My mother had a biting sense of humor and I’m glad that she still has it. And she’s right; I do have a terrible voice. As she talked she became more and more engaged and remembered a bunch of stuff. We talked about going to Coney Island and eating Nathan’s Hot Dogs. I was feeling pretty good about myself. I was almost a saint. Unfortunately as I was leaving she told me that Sy came yesterday. Uh oh. “I’m Sy,” I replied. I hated that she got mixed up and didn’t realize that all this time she was talking to me, her son. “You’re Sy?” she asked. “Yes, Mom, I’m your son Sy.” And I could see by my mom’s face that she knew her sometimes jumbled mind had betrayed her. I should have stayed longer but it’s hard seeing my mom like this, so I kissed her on the forehead and left. I tried to exit by the side door so people wouldn’t see

that I left so soon. After all, I had to keep up my saintly image. On the way out I was stopped by an elderly man. “Are you Flora’s son?” he asked. I nodded, trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, but he kept talking, “She’s a very nice lady. I spoke to her yesterday. By the way,my name is Sy, too.” I may be almost a saint but I’m a complete idiot. Sy Rosen is a humor columnist.

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The disturbing thoughts are called obsessions, and the rituals that are per-formed to try to prevent or get rid of them are called compulsions. Victims of OCD consume at least an hour a day with their compulsions. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after a frightening experi-ence. Often, people with PTSD have repeated memories of the experience both during their waking hours and in nightmares. A person having a flash-back may believe that the event is real. Victims of PTSD may have trouble sleeping, feel detached or be easily startled. They may have intimacy problems. They can be-come aggressive or even violent. Social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder, involves excessive self-consciousness in social situations. People with social phobia are afraid of being judged by others and being embarrassed by their own actions. Social phobics can be afraid of one type of situation or they may experi-ence symptoms almost any time they are around other people. Symptoms include blushing, sweating, trem-bling, nausea and difficulty talking. A specific phobia is an exaggerated fear of one thing. Some of the more common specific phobias are trig-gered by heights, animals such as snakes, closed spaces and flying. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) means excessive worry about a variety of things or life in general. People with GAD expect the worst and seem unable to relax. Often, they have trouble falling or staying asleep. Anxiety disorders are treated with medication and psychotherapy. Both approaches can be effective for most disorders. Anxiety disorders are not all treated the same, so it is important to determine the specific problem first. Although medications won’t cure an anxiety disorder, they can keep the symptoms under control and enable people to have normal lives. If you would like to ask a question, write to [email protected] Rights Reserved © 2014 by Fred Cicetti.

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BY BRIAN GUNNELL

With both sides vulnerable, East opened 3♣ (a weak bid, usu-

ally made with a 7-card suit), and South wound up declaring 6♠. East’s Ace won the opening Club lead and the next Club was ruffed by Declarer. Trumps were drawn in four rounds, East following once and then pitching three Clubs. Now all that remained was for Declarer to avoid losing a trick to the ♦Q. Was it a guess, or was it a certainty? When the hand was actually played, our Declarer was familiar with the idea that, with a 9-card fit, it was customary to cash the Ace and King (playing for the Queen to drop in two rounds) rather than finessing. But (unfortunate-ly) he remembered that East’s bidding

had shown a long Club suit, and this persuaded him that West was therefore

more likely to hold longer Diamonds. Accordingly, he cashed the ♦K, planning to finesse on the next round if West followed with a low Diamond. Poor Declarer got a nasty shock when, instead, West showed out and it was East who turned out to have the Diamond length. Down two (East still has a Club winner and the trumps are all gone) in a cold slam! Declarer should have gone fishing for extra clues before taking the crucial Diamond guess.

If (after drawing trumps) he cashes three Hearts first, East will show out on the third round. Now Declarer has a perfect count on the hand. East started with one Spade, two Hearts and (based on the bidding and the play) seven Clubs. That means East has three Diamonds, and leading a Diamond to Dummy’s Ace, and finessing on the second round, is guaranteed to succeed. Visit acbl.org for more about the fascinating game of bridge or email [email protected]. To find a bridge club in Florida, go to district9acbl.org/D9Clubsmap.htm. Bridge article provided courtesy of St. Petersburg Bridge Club: stpetebridge.org.

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