Shelley Buckingham

By Elaine Friesen-Strang

The song, Yes, We Have No Bananas, was first sung in 1922 by Isidore Itskowitz. We know him better as Eddie Cantor. (One couldn’t get work with name endings like itz or ovsky, or the myriad of East Europeans swallowing the officials on Ellis Island.) Cantor went on to star in vaudeville, Broadway musicals, and radio. It was in one of those musicals, Make it Snappy, that the world was introduced to Yes, We Have No Bananas.

By Michelle M. Cutugno

Is your home fit for a lifetime of living? 89 percent of older adults have told AARP they want to remain in their home and community for as long as possible. Will staying at home be an option for you or your loved one? Whether you provide care for an aging loved one or have questions about future care, join AARP Oregon for Staying at Home, a FREE community workshop coming to a location near you.

PORTLAND, OR -- If you provide care for an aging loved one, or expect to do so in the next few years, you should register for Navigating the Journey: Caring for those you care about, on Saturday afternoon, November 8 th at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland.

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by Dick Weinman, The Thin Edge of Dignity

By Elaine Friesen-Strang

I slide down in my wheelchair and sigh as I look at the crinkles in the bottom sheet of my bed, as I’m about to be helped into it for the night. I flashback to when I was ten or eleven – some seventy years ago – I was a city kid attending summer camp in the mountains of New England. We lived in a rustic (at least, that was our perception) cabin, in what was advertised as country, outdoors living. It was “roughing it” in a wooded paradise far different than our existence in New York City.

By Marianne Ryder