Positive Perspective
Ruby Tsuji finds meaning in persistence and connection with others Fact checked by Jim Lacy Over the course of her 92 years, Ruby Tsuji has known struggle. At just 9 years old, she lost her mother — while she and her family were imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California. Tule Lake was […]
Slaying Stereotypes
A veteran journalist on the inherent power of age What surprised Sheila Solomon about turning 72? “Not feeling it,” says the award-winning journalist, from her home in Chicago. Through her work and her life, Solomon is redefining aging. She pursues that mission as the host of Aging Rewired, a podcast from AARP’s Senior Planet. The […]
Capturing Time
Photography offers a retired Spanish teacher inspiration, purpose, and reason for travel At a piazza in Sicily, Patricia Solano watched her fellow photography students get turned away every time they asked to take someone’s photo. Solano, who’d spent 20 years as a high school Spanish teacher, spoke some Italian. So instead of asking for photos, […]
Writing to Remember
Gunter Nitsch documents his life as a refugee in post-war Europe Growing up in East Prussia during World War II and then in a West Germany refugee camp after the war, Gunter Nitsch didn’t envision the books he’d someday write. He was simply trying to get by. “The teachers I had in West Germany, they were […]
Tuskegee Airman Melvin Copeland Combats Discrimination
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the United States military and flew about 1,500 missions during World War II. They were courageous, inspirational, and instrumental in the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces. To Melvin Copeland, they were also family. Copeland, now 96, arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama, for aviation training in late 1943. […]