Mature Lifestyles Soutnwest edition March 2011

VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3 SOUTHWEST MARCH 2011

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Dear Readers,

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” —Will Rogers

Rush, rush, rush . . . I’m so busy. I’m rushing to save time, and

for what? What do I do with the time I saved by hurrying all through the yesterdays of past years? In a recent airport baggage claim area, I was witness to a typical 2011 “slice of life” scene. The carousel had spit out the bags which had come in on our flight when … oh, no… a big-ego, 70ish man with a New Jersey accent began blustering. He paced and tried to find someone among the departing passengers who cared. But, alas, we were all headed out the door, rushing to our own destinations—thankful that our bags were in hand. Twisting, looking about for someone to blame, he bellowed, “They can’t even get a bag on the right plane!” Wait a minute, Buddy! You flew from Newark to Tampa in just over three hours and your bag won’t come in until tomorrow morning—at which time it will be delivered to your door. Well, you just show ‘em, I say! Next time you drive that distance and keep your bag with you every single minute. See if you can do it without making any mistakes at all. No wrong exits, no choice of a bad

restaurant, no tired body from long days in the car! Try it, Buddy! See, in his hurry to rush about, he forgot to factor in being happy and thankful for the time and weari-ness he’d saved by flying. I read this last week: “One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time, without considering what we will do with that extra time.” Why does everything have to be fast? If I say “my computer is really slow today,” I usually mean it’s taking 30 seconds to open a website which will instantly gratify me with the information I have requested. Hospitals are even trying to hurry up emergency room service to make the public happy. You see, we really are in a hurry, even when we’re sick. It’s true, we don’t want to wait on what is often routine medical care which millions on the planet will never ever have available no matter how far they would walk and how long they would be willing to wait. So now we see the billboards advertising “26 minutes wait time at XYZ Hospital Emergency Room.” The numbers are digitally controlled and can change with the supposedly changing time required. So, at some point, one guesses, the time might actually be—could it be real?—10 minutes, or—two hours, etc. A Detroit hospital guarantees treat-ment in their announced number of minutes or the treatment is free! The sales gimmick worked and business rose 30 percent in the ER (although someone commented that no statistics are available for the mortality rate).

Fortunately I’ve not had occasion to challenge the digital numbers, but I wonder how accurate the signs are. And how fast do we really want some things to go, like if I’m the patient that day? Unfortunately, we want even God to be an American and act in a hurry on our behalf, regardless of whether we’ve been hurrying about on His behalf lately or not. When trouble comes, we plead and implore and beg Him to take care of our situation instantly so that we won’t have any difficulties today. We’re in a hurry, don’t you see, God? It’s really not new to be busy. Even Jesus’ disciples felt rushed when they were with Him. Mark writes in his Gospel: “For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.” As the world grows smaller with technological and transportation advances, we more and more want to have everything done yesterday. It all comes at a price, doesn’t it? We say of our children and grandchildren, “Their lives are so busy.” Friends and neighbors get neglected because we are “so busy.” I’m trying to make myself slow down both physically and mentally, to allow time for quiet pursuits of the soul and mind. Robert Louis Stevenson said it this way: “To sit still and contemplate . . . is this not to know both wisdom and virtue and to dwell with happiness?” Be well and relax in the Florida sunshine.

Rushing to Save Time… For What?

Janice Doyle, Editor

Last month my husband David and I visited the Reagan Presidential Library in California which is also home

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Richard Thomas: Time Bandit

Regrets? Everyone has a few, un-less perhaps you’re Frank Sinatra.

For the rest of us, time marches on whether we make the right decisions or not—and it’s hard to not look back on the past and wish we’d been able to guide our younger selves. But in the March 19 Hallmark Channel Original Movie “Time After Time,” Richard Thomas gets to play a man with a rare opportunity—the ability to tweak his past by getting to know his brasher, if more fearful, 30-year-old self. Thomas, onetime John-Boy on “The Waltons,” says it’s not about the sci-fi , but about people and relationships. “It’s about how moments are pre-cious and you shouldn’t squander them,” says Thomas, who turns 60 in June. “The present is all we have. It’s an admonition about how you make your choices in the present.” If the present is all we have, then it’s a good thing Thomas’s charac-ter Dick Kern shows up when he does in “Time After Time.” The 30-year old Richard is an ambitious journalist based in Tulsa who fl ees his job and the state when a story goes wrong. He ends up back on Long Island, New York, working for the small town paper where he got his start.

But then things get a little haywire when Richard meets another newcomer to the paper—Dick, who seems to know a whole lot about Richard’s life, and how he became the person who ran away, rather than confront, his troubles. Dick re-veals he’s actually Richard, 30 years older, and he’s here to help him become the man he should be. With Dick offering advice, Richard learns to face a number of challenges—in-cluding re-acquainting himself with his former high-school sweetheart Jackie, who is now engaged. Richard is assigned a story that could change the course of Richard’s career … and the fate of his quaint, small town. So wait—amidst the romance and metaphysics and rewriting of history, is “Time After Time” also hiding a warning mes-sage about big box stores? “Of course!” laughs Thomas. “This fi lm has a social message about valuing the smaller in our society.” Thomas, son of ballet dancers, took to the stage as a child and, in spite of having partial hearing loss (he uses hearing aids now), earned accolades for his work on stage and screen, including live-on-TV appearances in several Hallmark Hall of Fame movies, beginning with 1958’s “The Christmas Tree.”

He landed his most notable role in “The Waltons” in 1971, and then left in 1977, returning to the “John-Boy” part several times over the years for various movie specials. For years it was the way in which most people rec-ognized him, though over the decades that’s tapered off—in part to his New York residency, which affords him a certain amount of anonymity. But it took a while before he could shake off being “John-Boy” to everyone. “When you fi rst leave a show you know you’ll have to do some heavy lifting to balance the scales,” he says. “You can’t expect everyone to be on your schedule, just because you left the show and want to play other parts. But it’s astonishing—people still come up to me in England and France and recognize me. I’m glad that’s the TV series I’m known for.” Over the decades, Thomas built a career of playing to the “John-Boy” expectations—and against them, with a career that includes everything from appearances on “Law & Order” (2009) to feature fi lms like “Wonder Boys” (2000) and adaptations of Stephen King works like “It” (1990). He says making “Time After Time” was a unique experience. “I’ve made over 50 TV fi lms over the years—but we shot this fi lm in 15 days. That’s a new land speed record in my life,” he says. “At fi rst I wasn’t sure if they were sending it to me to play the younger guy or the older guy,” he chuckles. Clearly, he was destined for the elder part of Dick, and specifi cally asked if he could let it all hang out to play the part—that is, just be himself. “I thought, I want to be a little heavy and look my age and not have anything airbrushed out and see how it is.”

As a father of seven—with ages ranging from 34 to 14—Thomas is grateful that fi lms like the ones Hallmark makes still exist, which is why he likes returning to the fold. “Hallmark is one of the few places left where I can do a fi lm that appeals to the kind of family viewership that loved ‘The Waltons.’ A lot of those people have a hard time with what’s on television right now. It’s family enter-tainment, and family entertainment is not just children’s programming; it’s a show the whole family can watch together, and when it’s done they can have a discussion. That doesn’t mean it can’t have edges—it just has to be aware of its audience. This picture is that kind of picture,” he says.

But would he want to time-travel back and give advice to his younger self? Thomas feels like he already does, every time he talks to his kids. “I have a wife I adore, and a 14-year old kid I never thought I’d have, and if I’d done things slightly differently, maybe I wouldn’t have that now,” he says. “But people ask themselves this question all the time. One always does things that one isn’t so proud of, treating a person a certain way, or saying something wrong. But it’s a teaching device. If you can admit to yourself there are things you would change—what does that teach you?”“Time After Time” premieres March 19 (9 p.m. ET/PT, 8C).(Crown Features Syndicate™)

“The Waltons,” 1971.

Richard Thomas’ character meets a younger version of himself in Hallmark

Channel’s new movie, “Time after Time.”


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March 2011

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7 Burnt Store Presbyterian Church

Praise Team, 5:30 p.m., Center Stage.

17 Alzheimers Associ-ation, Florida Gulf

Coast Chapter presents Memory Mobile at Fisher-men’s Village, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. For more informa-tion contact Chris Jaeger at (941) 235-7470.

25 ”Doolittles Tokyo Raiders” Center Court, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. presented by

Military Heritage Museum; reception to follow at museum.

Fishermen’s Village is on the waterfront in Punta Gorda. Call (941) 575-3007 for details.

8 Mardi Gras Dinner and Show with

Music City Brass.

9 Dinner Theater – A Tribute To Nat

King Cole. 5:30 p.m.

11 and 12 Arts and Crafts

Show. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

12 “Let’s Hang On!” Frankie Valli and

the Four Seasons Tribute. 2 and 7 p.m.

28 Swingin’ on Mon-days. Big band, 7 p.m.

All shows at Cultural Center of Charlotte County, 2280 Aaron Street, Port Charlotte. Tickets, times and info: (941) 625-4175.

12 Shamrock Festival. 12 – 10 p.m. Hill-

view St., Sarasota. Free admission. Traditional Irish family fun, food and drinks. (941) 879-3345.

16 Marcille Wallis & Friends, 6 – 8 p.m.,

Center Stage at Fishermen’s Village. Celtic music, Irish Dancers in traditional cos-tume. Free. (941) 575-3007.

17 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. Celtic

and Irish music, dancing, Lee County Pipes and Drums and more. 5 – 9 p.m. at Fishermen’s Village. Free. Details at (941) 575-3007.

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• Florida International Air Show March 26 – 27 at the Charlotte County Airport in Punta Gorda. See exciting and death-defying stunts performed by some of the best pilots in the business. Enjoy expanded aircraft exhibits, displays,

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We raised our kids with the help of baby monitors and nanny

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Some systems include one or two way video cameras, allowing us to watch our parents going about their daily routine. But beware—the tables will soon be turned. Before we know it our kids will become the salami of the sandwich generation, and it will be information about our most intimate habits and bodily functions that will be sent via e-mail alerts or text messages to their iPhones. Then our kids may amuse themselves viewing videos of mom wandering aimlessly from room to room or dad trying to remember where he put his glasses. This scenario raises many fears in my mind. If I’m too boring to watch for very long, will my caregivers start channel surfing? Will my voyeuristic offspring sit glued to the screen watching some uninhibited octogenarian love mak-ing? The thought is too depressing.

(Not the voyeuristic part so much, but the thought that we might still have to deal with sex in our eighties.) What do they expect to see from these recordings? Will they be waiting for the big event—the catastrophe that justifies the investment in the system: “Look Jenna! Mom’s fallen and can’t get up. Now aren’t you glad we spent all that money on video cameras?” I know our kids won’t wish us ill, but discoveries like that are really the point of the whole thing. And lest anyone become too complacent, it’s worth remembering that the technology is only as good as the people monitoring it. How will my ADHD daughter be able to monitor the text messages regarding the regularity of my bowel movements if she keeps losing her cell phone? Even more frightening is the “med-cottage”—or “granny-pod”—to be in the backyards of adult children who don’t want their parents actually living

inside their houses but also don’t want to send them to nursing homes. Imag-ine a hybrid between a hotel room and a doghouse, wired with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. I have an image of each of us staring mournfully out of the windows of our Little Houses on the Prairie, our respective noses pressed against the glass as we watch our families in the “Big House” sitting around a table in a brightly lit room, enjoy-ing a comfortable meal, laughing and, perhaps, singing. And then a tornado comes along and, like Dorothy’s house in Kansas, our lightweight trailer-park-for-one is swept up into the funnel cloud and carried off. Unaware, the family in the big house keeps on singing. Well, here’s my thought: If that’s how I’m going to be “aging-in-place,” then I’d like to be allowed to age in some other place—preferably one where the backyard has a nice pool.

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After more than 23 years at Carrell Corners in Central Fort Myers,

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The Friendship Centers also has a wish list of new furnishings for the “Living Room” Adult Day Service. Please call (239) 275-1881 for more information. Senior Friendship Centers is funded by Florida’s Department of Elder Affairs, the Area Agency on Aging of Southwest Florida, Lee County Department of Human Services and is a United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades Partner Agency.

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He’s recognized as one of the greatest basketball players of

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(692), field goals attempted in a four-year career (1,647), free throws made in a game (18), free throws made in a season (265) and free throws attempted in a season (359). His number 41 is one of only six that has been retired at WKU. He has been named to the OVC Half-Century Team and the OVC 40th Anniversary team. A 6’4” forward, Marshall was drafted by the Rochester

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After a promising rookie season, he was drafted into the Army and missed the 1955-56 season.

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An Interview with Barry PetersenPart 2

Last month, Caregiver.com Editor-in-Chief Gary Barg sat down with

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Gary Barg: What do you do aboutthe guilt?

Barry Petersen: I talked to people who were good at this; obviously, a therapist is good at this. I asked for their help. They explained this in numerous ways; the most brilliant was the guy in Beijing. I went to him and said, “I am feeling horribly guilty.” This is after Jan is in assisted living in the United States and I am still in Asia. I am having a terrible time getting the wherewithal to get back on a plane and see her. I said, “This is awful. I feel awful about this.” He said, “It is because every time you go back and every time you see her change, you start the process all over again of grieving for what you have lost. It is like going to the same funeral over and over again.” That still goes

on today. We were out there last weekend to see Jan and yes, when there are changes, when you see that she has slipped away a little more, it hurts. That old friend, that old foe, guilt, comes back to haunt you. So I do not think it ever goes away. You ask what do you do about it? I guess what you do is you cope with it. It is going to be there and you deal with it as best you can day-to-day.

Gary Barg: That is why I like the idea of an appropriately led sup-port group. Even though millions of people go through caregiving, each and every one of us thinks we are absolutely alone.

Barry Petersen: I think that is on my list of cruelties of the disease. It is so

hard on the caregiver, and the caregiver does not know because you just do not realize it. So I think that to be a caregiver in this disease is dangerous, difficult, and lonely; and, if you do not watch out, suicidal. People do not like to hear that, but I think that is true.

Gary Barg: One other challenging aspect we have as the primary caregiver is, so many times, you make a deci-sion and all of a sud-

den you start getting terrible flack from people you thought were on your side. What can you recommend for caregiv-ers who are going through this issue?

Barry Petersen: In fact, people who were my co-workers did not understand what was going on. Afterward, they read the book and said, “My God, I had no idea!” These are people I work with every day, which gives you a pretty good indication of how clever you can be when you try to hide what is going on. I mean, instinctively, you do this. I do not mean it as a purposeful thing. You just say, “I am doing fine,” but the mistake I made was more than that. I protected other people from how Jan really was. I did not want Jan to be embarrassed. I did not want people

to think that somehow this vibrant person had changed so dramatically that they should alter their view of her, even though she had changed. Even though I thought I was being honest when I sent out e-mails and told people about this, the fact is, I did not communicate it. We are now in our third year of assisted living and there are still people who are really angry with me for how I put Jan into a facility. I think my mistake was not being as open as I could have been about how Jan was doing.

Gary Barg: What would be the one most important piece of advice you would like to share with family caregivers?

Barry Petersen: Do not do it alone. Do not get sucked into this vortex, into this black hole; because if you do, it will kill you. If it kills you, what good is that going to be for the person you are taking care of? For some reason, we get a martyr com-plex when we are caring for someone with this disease. I do not know what it is. I have seen other people. I have had the same thing. I can do it alone. I can take care of it. The more the demands are, the more you deny that you are suffering anything from this. It will take you down; and if you do not realize it, then you are going to hurt the very person you are trying to help—the person with the disease. Barry Petersen’s book, “Jan’s Story,” is available at Amazon.com.

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Presidential Libraries: Getting to Know You, Mr. President

BY JANICE DOYLE

“Regardless of what I thought of President Johnson, now

I feel like I know what he was all about,” my husband said as we left the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Adding the presidential libraries to your travel plans adds history, nostalgia, culture and understanding to your life.

Our country’s Presidential Library System is a network of libraries ad-ministered by the Offi ce of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. These are not libraries in the modern sense, but rather they are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every president since Herbert Hoover. All of the libraries feature books, papers, memorabilia, cor-respondence, news articles and gifts. Exhibits in each library give visitors a historical perspective of the president and his decisions. Each library also includes sec-tions about the presidential First Lady as well as areas displaying gifts from foreign dignitaries. Behind the scenes are store rooms holding gowns the fi rst ladies wore, drawers of photos (every single photo taken by the offi cial photographers is kept!) and every piece of mail received. Rotating exhibits can be one of the greatest fi nds at the various libraries. I’ve seen the “Traveling White House

in Miniature” and “Baseball and the Presidency,” for example. Besides the libraries, presidents have other buildings, such as family homes which are interesting to visit, but nothing gives as much insight into the presidential decisions as the libraries they created and opened to the public. The Presidential Libraries include:

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (1929 – 1933)Location: West Branch,IowaNotable: Includes his Birthplace Cottage, Friends Meetinghouse, burial site and other buildings recalling small Midwestern towns of the times.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (1933 – April 1945)Location: Hyde Park,New YorkNotable: Tracks the creation of the crown jewel of FDR’s New Deal—Social Security, his greatest legacy to the nation—as well as his leadership during WWII.

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (1945 – 1953)Location: Independence,MissouriNotable: Holds the White House Decision Center where school students take on the roles of President Truman and his advisors facing real-life his-torical decisions (dropping the bomb on Japan) in a re-creation of the West Wing of the White House. See his famous sign: “The Buck Stops Here.”

Dwight D. EisenhowerPresidential Library and Museum (1953 – 1961)Location: Abilene, KansasNotable: Tells the story of “Ike”

and his military achievements, his role in civil rights legislation, the decision to send Army troops into Little Rock and his responsibility for the Interstate Highway System.

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (1961 – November 1963)Location: Boston, MassachusettsNotable: Covers his historic political campaign, the Cuban Missile Crisis decisions and the U.S. Space Program (Project Mercury); artifacts include the original coconut on which a rescue message was inscribed by Kennedy to rescue the crew of the PT-109.

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library (1963 – 1969)Location: University of Texas, Austin. Notable: Follows his failures in foreign policy as well as his victories in domestic policy. Details his lifelong fi ght against poverty.

Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace (1969 – 1974)Locations: Yorba Linda, California and College Park, MarylandNotable: Follows events including the end of the Vietnam War and involvement in The Cold War. Covers Watergate, including the tape recorder used in the incident.

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library (1974 – 1977) Location: University of Michigan, Ann ArborNotable: Denotes the changing times in technology communication by the sheer numbers of audiovisual items, includ-ing photographs, videotapes of news broadcasts, audiotapes of speeches and press briefi ngs, fi lm of public events and televised campaign commercials.

Jimmy Carter Library (1977 – 1981)Location: Atlanta, GeorgiaNotable: Treats issues of his presidency fairly with no apologies—his real success in creating peace between Egypt and Israel is given no grander treatment than fail-ures such as Iran hostage crisis, energy crisis, the SALT II treaty.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs (1981 – 1989)Location: Simi Valley, CaliforniaNotable: Conveys the private and public life of a popular president. Displays touching letters written by Mrs. Reagan over the years. Includes Air Force One used during six presidencies, and it can be toured.

George H. W. Bush Presidential Library (1989 – 1993)Location: University of Texas, College StationNotable: Documents his most dif-fi cult decisions and actions while in offi ce, as well as lighter moments. Special focus is on the Gulf War and the fall of communism. Avenger aircraft and mockup of Oval offi ce (the only one where you can have your picture made at the desk!).

William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center (1993 – 2001)Location: Little Rock,ArkansasNotable: Captures a little of the Moni-ca Lewinsky and Whitewater scandals and his impeachment in a section called “politics of persecution.”

Include a presidential library in your travel plans, and you will come out saying, “It was good getting to know you better, Mr. President.”

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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Missouri


Consider the Lowly PeanutMarch is National Peanut Butter

Month. If you raised sons, you might have already guessed that the aver-age American boy eats 1500 peanut but-ter and jelly sandwiches by age 18; but did you know that it takes 820 peanuts to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter?

It was Mr. Kellogg of cereal fame who actually patented the first peanut butter process. And aren’t we grateful? As for health benefits, the unsaturated fat content in peanut butter helps reduce the risk of heart disease by 25 percent (if you eat 1 oz. per day). Its rich folate and niacin (vitamin B3) content helps increase the HDL (good cholesterol) level by as much as 30 percent, all while being a very good source of proteins (up to 25 percent of peanuts consists of proteins) and dietary fiber. The most unique property of peanut butter, though, is its high

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Ingredients:4 – 6” whole wheat tortillas4 tbsp. peanut butter1 thinly sliced banana

Preparation: Spray skillet with cooking spray. Spread peanut butter evenly over two of the tortillas. Place thinly sliced bananas over the peanut butter. Cover each peanut butter-covered tortilla with another tortilla; turn and heat until warm on both sides. Cut into quarters and serve hot.

Nutty Mustard Chicken

Ingredients:4 chicken breasts4 cups of Good Earth Peanuts 2 eggs 4 tbsp. dijon mustard 3 tbsp. butter Chop peanuts in food proces-sor into crumb-like pieces.

In a small bowl, beat eggs. Add mustard and beat well. Place nut mixture into a large plastic bag. In a large frying pan, melt butter

over medium heat. Dip one breast at a time in egg/mustard mixture until covered and then place in plastic bag with peanuts and shake until coated. Place each coated piece in pan and cook for 10 – 15 minutes on each side.

Peanuts By The Numbers

70%of world’s peanut crop is producedin India and China together

2,680 pounds

700million pounds

of peanuts produced in one acre of land makes 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches

Amount of peanuts Americans eat each year (would theoretically cover the entire floor of the Grand Canyon)

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