Music and Memory

Musical ability may help your hearing skills and memory stay strong into old age.

music and memorySource: Getty Images

Knowing how to play music could improve your auditory abilities as you age.

Older adults with musical skills are better able to process certain sounds.
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Six Holiday Traditions to End This Season!

Some Holiday Traditions That Should Go Away!

December 19, 2011

As we deck the halls and trim the trees, there's some holiday traditions we should just toss in the garbage. Here's a few of them. Enjoy. Eliminate. Add your own.

Charlie Brown free of that song...at last!
Eggnog--YUCK!
A Santa Claus Inflatable
A Christmas Carol--a plot mimicked by every sitcom!
This car would make even antlers look good!
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What Is Creativity?

A music critic turned songwriter reveals how to be creative at midlife.

October 17, 2011
What Is Creativity? How To Become more creative at midlife.Source: Getty Images

Many people yearn to write music. One woman reveals her secrets for unleashing her creativity to become a songwriter at midlife.

A former Boston Globe music critic reveals the keys to creativity when she became a songwriter at midlife.
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Concert-Going after 40: I Survived the Bocelli Concert in Central Park

Despite the weather, Andrea Bocelli at Central Park didn't disappoint.

September 16, 2011
Tenor Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion sing The PrayerSource: Getty Images

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sings with Celine Dion at the concert in Central Park.

Crowds undaunted by rain at September 15 Andrea Bocelli Concert at Central Park.
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Best App: 'Spotify' Explained

Music on subscription service Spotify is cheaper than on iTunes – but is it better or easier?

Spotify app on AndroidSource: Spotify

Two of Spotify's Android app acreens; there's also an iPhone/iPad app

Spotify is a music service from which you rent instead of buy music, and you can stream all your music to your iPhone or Android phone. But is it worth the price or the bother?
Read More

An Old School Music Lesson

My Gen Y co-workers pepper me with questions during a fire drill.

January 31, 2011
Source: Getty Images

Stan, er, Van the man. 

Frank Moldstad is the only 50-something at a west coast digital marketing firm comprised almost entirely of 20-somethings. This is the ongoing story of his travails.... 

Because there is about a 30-year age gap between me and most of my co-workers, I am the resident expert on anything that happened before roughly 1990. Some of their questions I cannot answer, such as: What was the first LL Cool J album? But most are ridiculously easy. What was that old comic strip with all the kids?

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Managing Your Passions

Journals make keeping track of leisure pursuits easy.

Source: Moleskine

Moleskine's Wine Journal helps keep track of your favorites

Computers are wonderful—they've certainly changed our lives. But there are still times when putting things in writing is the only way to go, especially when you're away from your desk. Blackberries and iPhones are really not designed for serious note taking. I even hate sending emails on my Blackberry  (the keys are too small and hard to read, even with glasses). I guess I'm just from the wrong generation.

Read More

Make Your Own Music With This iPhone App

Zoozbeat lets you select from a variety of musical styles to create tunes by tapping and shaking.

Source: Zooz Mobile

Ever wanted to unleash your inner beat poet, but lacked the backing bongos and stand-up bass? Or felt your very own three-chord rock classic bubbling up within you, but lack the guitar or the chops to play one?  There's an app for that.

Read More

10 Billionth iTunes Download is Cash's Last Laugh

A 71-year old man's download of "Guess Things Happen That Way" symbolizes the reach of digital music and how iTunes has taken the music business back to the future.

February 28, 2010
Source: Joel Baldwin, 1969 (via Wikipedia)

On Febuary 25th, Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia downloaded Johnny Cash's "Guess Things Happen That Way" from Apple's iTune Store to put on the iPod Nano he got for his 71st birthday. It just so happened that Louie's purchase of the Man in Black's 1958 single was the 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes.

Read More

Music and Memory

Musical ability may help your hearing skills and memory stay strong into old age.

music and memorySource: Getty Images

Knowing how to play music could improve your auditory abilities as you age.

Older adults with musical skills are better able to process certain sounds.
Read More
| family

Six Holiday Traditions to End This Season!

Some Holiday Traditions That Should Go Away!

December 19, 2011

As we deck the halls and trim the trees, there's some holiday traditions we should just toss in the garbage. Here's a few of them. Enjoy. Eliminate. Add your own.

Charlie Brown free of that song...at last!
Eggnog--YUCK!
A Santa Claus Inflatable
A Christmas Carol--a plot mimicked by every sitcom!
This car would make even antlers look good!
View Slideshow

What Is Creativity?

A music critic turned songwriter reveals how to be creative at midlife.

October 17, 2011
What Is Creativity? How To Become more creative at midlife.Source: Getty Images

Many people yearn to write music. One woman reveals her secrets for unleashing her creativity to become a songwriter at midlife.

A former Boston Globe music critic reveals the keys to creativity when she became a songwriter at midlife.
Read More

Concert-Going after 40: I Survived the Bocelli Concert in Central Park

Despite the weather, Andrea Bocelli at Central Park didn't disappoint.

September 16, 2011
Tenor Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion sing The PrayerSource: Getty Images

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sings with Celine Dion at the concert in Central Park.

Crowds undaunted by rain at September 15 Andrea Bocelli Concert at Central Park.
Read More

Best App: 'Spotify' Explained

Music on subscription service Spotify is cheaper than on iTunes – but is it better or easier?

Spotify app on AndroidSource: Spotify

Two of Spotify's Android app acreens; there's also an iPhone/iPad app

Spotify is a music service from which you rent instead of buy music, and you can stream all your music to your iPhone or Android phone. But is it worth the price or the bother?
Read More

An Old School Music Lesson

My Gen Y co-workers pepper me with questions during a fire drill.

January 31, 2011
Source: Getty Images

Stan, er, Van the man. 

Frank Moldstad is the only 50-something at a west coast digital marketing firm comprised almost entirely of 20-somethings. This is the ongoing story of his travails.... 

Because there is about a 30-year age gap between me and most of my co-workers, I am the resident expert on anything that happened before roughly 1990. Some of their questions I cannot answer, such as: What was the first LL Cool J album? But most are ridiculously easy. What was that old comic strip with all the kids?

Read More

Managing Your Passions

Journals make keeping track of leisure pursuits easy.

Source: Moleskine

Moleskine's Wine Journal helps keep track of your favorites

Computers are wonderful—they've certainly changed our lives. But there are still times when putting things in writing is the only way to go, especially when you're away from your desk. Blackberries and iPhones are really not designed for serious note taking. I even hate sending emails on my Blackberry  (the keys are too small and hard to read, even with glasses). I guess I'm just from the wrong generation.

Read More

Make Your Own Music With This iPhone App

Zoozbeat lets you select from a variety of musical styles to create tunes by tapping and shaking.

Source: Zooz Mobile

Ever wanted to unleash your inner beat poet, but lacked the backing bongos and stand-up bass? Or felt your very own three-chord rock classic bubbling up within you, but lack the guitar or the chops to play one?  There's an app for that.

Read More

10 Billionth iTunes Download is Cash's Last Laugh

A 71-year old man's download of "Guess Things Happen That Way" symbolizes the reach of digital music and how iTunes has taken the music business back to the future.

February 28, 2010
Source: Joel Baldwin, 1969 (via Wikipedia)

On Febuary 25th, Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia downloaded Johnny Cash's "Guess Things Happen That Way" from Apple's iTune Store to put on the iPod Nano he got for his 71st birthday. It just so happened that Louie's purchase of the Man in Black's 1958 single was the 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes.

Read More

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