Friday, Apr. 05, 2024
Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and radical author/editor Carey McWilliams. A longtime…
Friday, Mar. 22, 2024
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is “the backup insurance policy for all the seed banks worldwide,” said its founder, Cary Fowler. The Vault, which stores 500 million seeds, is naturally three to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2024
Sunday's Beatles Singalong: An OLLI at UC Berkeley Musicganza & Fundraiser at Freight & Salvage was a joyous trip down memory lane!
Saturday, Mar. 09, 2024
Linda Haverty Rugg is a professor in Berkeley’s Scandinavian Department. She has taught OLLI courses on Ingmar Bergman, crime fiction, saga literature, eco criticism, and Mark…
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
A former Special Correspondent for The New York Times, John J. Geoghegan is a journalist, author and educator with four non-fiction books to his name. His articles have appeared…
Monday, Feb. 26, 2024
This winter, I've been attending some OLLI classes in person as well as online. Much as I appreciate the convenience of learning online — as well as the learning itself! — I have…
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
We might as well face the facts: we as individuals and as a society are not going to be the same as we were prior to the start of the pandemic. Whether it’s traveling or simply…
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
I have roots in San Francisco. My great-great-grandfather landed there in 1854 as a 12-year-old immigrant from China. His children and grandchildren were all born in Chinatown. When the 1906 earthquake devastated the city, the entire clan consisting of three generations took refuge in Oakland – and stayed there.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
We OLLI students, despite being older adults, choose to fill a portion of our time taking classes, reading, and writing to nourish our intellectual curiosity. We are back in school where we learn and question as well as read and write—all features of what our reality was when we were much younger during our years of formal schooling in that long ago stage of our lives.
Thursday, Jan. 04, 2024
After 40 years in the classroom, Peter Davis retired in 2017 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he served as Chair of the Theatre Studies and MA/PhD…
Wednesday, Jan. 03, 2024
Many people are either required to retire from their jobs at about age 65 or voluntarily elect to do so. If one is in good health at that age, the odds are reasonably good that they will still have approximately another three decades to live, which is far longer than any previous generation experienced.
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
Friendship is defined as “a person being attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.” Especially during one’s senior years, it is important to appreciate that…