Turns out that being a "senior" is mostly just googling how to do stuff.
I want to be 18 again and ruin my life differently. I have new ideas
I'm on two simultaneous diets. I wasn't getting enough food on one.
I put my scale in the bathroom corner and that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes.
My mind is like an internet browser. At least 18 open tabs, 3 of them are frozen, and I have no clue where the music is coming from.
Hard to believe I once had a phone attached to a wall, and when it rang, I picked it up without knowing who was calling.
There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is that once you get old, you stop being polite and start being honest.
Contributed by Barbara Bruno
Thought About Food . . .
It was a Friday. Hot and swelter. Pizza Day in the Bistro. As we began to consume this most perfect of foods (grain, protein, dairy, vegetable), our thoughts turned to its lineage. Later in the day, we tripped over a New York Times article on just that subject that may shed a bit of light on the mystery of pizza’s history.
A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall
That doughy disc with delectable toppings seen in a 2,000-year-old painting is not a pizza, experts insist. But can we get one delivered anyway?
By Elisabetta Povoledo
It may have been no pepperoni with extra cheese, but it still caught the eye of archaeologists working on the ruins of Pompeii, and not because they were hungry.
The researchers were excavating the site earlier this year when they ran across a fresco depicting a silver platter laden with wine, fruit — and a flat, round piece of dough with toppings that looked remarkably like a pizza.
Proto-pizza might be more like it, given that the city of Pompeii was buried by a volcano in 79 A.D., nearly 2,000 years before anything modern civilization might recognize as a pie came into existence.
In a statement published on Tuesday, the archaeologists were insistent that the dish portrayed in the fresco did not mean that the History of Pizza is about to be rewritten. “Most of the characteristic ingredients are missing, namely tomatoes and mozzarella,” they said.
Originally published June 27, 2023, The New York Times; updated June 29, 2023
Contributed by Peter Sibley
Quotable Quotes
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain
Contributed by Marianne Bloomfeld