Bay Area

The water faucet sounds like Niagara Falls. Dishes being stacked slam like a 6-car traffic accident. My own voice comes out like I’m speaking on a microphone in an echo chamber. Yes, I have just started wearing my first hearing aids and have not yet gotten used to the jingly jangly, silvery, metallic audio clatter like […]

Bay seniors should know who they are by this point in life, comfortable enough in their own skin to play around with other possible identities, right? Why not pretend to be someone else? With no thought of actually going onstage or screen, go sign up for an acting class. You can find them all over […]

Bay seniors in the mood to catch a Pacific breeze and soar via hang gliding may balk at the cost of lessons and licenses – they can take months and cost in the thousands including equipment. But just for the quick thrill of it, East Bay Hang Gliding has single lessons for $175 and tandem […]

Bay seniors whose knee replacements have healed nicely are invited to gambol along during Dance Week from this Friday until May 3. Over 400 events are scheduled around the Bay Area from ballet classes to participatory demonstrations of jazz, modern, hip hop, tango, ballet, swing, 70’s jazzercise, salsa, capoerira, afro-columbian, zumba, tango, belly dancing, even […]

Sports-minded Bay Area seniors who don’t know a batsman from a dink should check out the cricket action around here. Even though its recent surge in popularity  has been fueled by the growing South Asian community it has been played locally since 1881. There is a surprisingly active league especially in the South Bay during […]

Bay seniors may not advise friends to visit us in the middle of winter but that has not stopped 1.6 million shorebirds and waterfowl from flocking here on their annual pilgrimage. It is known as the Pacific Flyover and locals are honoring our avian visitors with a large handful of festivals everywhere from the South […]