Monthly Archives: December 2009

Nancy Tarpein wasn’t accustomed to chivalry. As a senior living in a vast stretch of singlewide mobile homes that from the sky look like scattered gum sticks near the base of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, she was used to being overlooked in an American culture that celebrates wealth and youth. Seventy-three years old and widowed, [...]

As an Olympic skier and college football player, Jeremy Bloom had the air knocked out of him by bad landings on moguls runs and by cornerbacks who flattened him mid-stride. This fall, Bloom abandoned his attempt to make his third Olympic team to help elderly people who have been laid low. “He has accomplished many [...]