“This book explores the joys of newfound love in old age, the miraculous blossoming that can occur when two lovers find each other after a lifetime of searching…The crystalline poems in The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens are shot through with a gentle melancholy leavened by wit and eros.”

— Alison Luterman, Catamaran Poetry Prize Winner

“I love this book for its reassuring frankness, subtlety, and genial intelligence.… a mind so inventive, so alive to possibility, always at the heart of loving and delight… This book isn’t just for seniors, it’s for anyone who wants to feel what it is to be fully alive.”

— Tess Gallagher, Author of Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems

“These poems come to grips with the melancholy of aging set against the backdrop of love and sex, community and loneliness, laughter and tears.”

— Joseph Millar, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowship Recipient

What does love look like in life’s later chapters? In this tender, mischievous new collection of poetry, Zack Rogow answers with the hard-won wisdom of a man newly single in his senior years.

“After being with the same person for over three decades, I found my life upside down, dating again after the age of 65,” says Rogow, a teacher, playwright, poet, and translator. “I went on over 75 first dates and tried every-which-way to meet someone that I could feel a loving connection with. Luckily, I did, but it was not easy.” Rogow adds: “I didn’t succeed in finding a long-term partner by dating online. I finally met my current partner through our mutual interest in French literature. In an interview, he will share the following:

How he survived 75 first-time dates until he found a second chance at deep intimacy

The challenges and rewards of aging

What he discovered on the singles scene after not dating for 35 years

Why the three-time Pushcart Prize for Poetry nominee writes about love

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Zack Rogow is the author, editor or translator of more than 20 books and plays. Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry, his previous nine collections of poetry include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music, and The Number Before Infinity. His memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was released in 2024. Zack’s co-authored play, Colette Uncensored, had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and later ran in London, Indonesia, Catalonia, San Francisco, and Portland. His blog, Advice for Writers, features more than 300 posts. He has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Northern California Book Reviewers Award in Translation, and the Celestine Award for Poetry. He also edited the anthology The Face of Poetry (University of California Press).

Additional career highlights include:

Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award for translation of Horace by George Sand

Lili Fabilli-Eric Hoffer Essay Prize, UC Berkeley

Co-authored play Colette Uncensored, nominated for outstanding solo show by Theatre Bay Area, and co-authored play Groucho for President selected for JETFest, festival of new plays; staged reading

Taught at University of Anchorage and California College of the Arts

Contributing editor for Catamaran Literary Reader

Served as managing director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

Wrote lyrics for several jazz songs, one of which was recorded by the chanteuse Carrie Wicks. Listen here: https://originarts.com/oa2/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=22175

His dad, Lee Rogow, was a widely published writer and man-about-town in Manhattan in the 1950s, before dying tragically in an airplane crash when he was three years old. Zack writes about this in his memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost.

Rogow earned his Master of Arts in English from City College and BA in English from Yale University, graduating Cum Laude. He resides in Northern California. For more information, visit www.zackrogow.com.

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His blog is here: https://zackrogow.blogspot.com/

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I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers..

I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.

I decided to stop calling the bathroom the ‘John’ and renamed it the ‘Jim’. I feel so much better saying “I went to the Jim this morning”.

Old age is coming at a really bad time. When I was a child I thought Nap Time was a punishment. Now, as a grownup, it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is…”I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.”

I don’t have grey hair; I have Wisdom Highlights I’m just very wise.

Don’t ever ask me to bend down and touch my toes. I am habituated to others touching my toes now a days !

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators We haven’t met yet.

Of course I talk to myself; sometimes when I need expert advice.

At my age “Getting lucky” means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.

Actually I’m not complaining because I am a Senager. (Senior teenager)

Life is great.

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.

Now, I’m wondering…did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

Have a good chuckle. Laughter is a good Medicine

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Old Faithful is the most famous geyser in the world, but who named the iconic feature?  And how does the current frequency of its eruptions compare to when it was first described?

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Mike Poland, Research Geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, and Shaul Hurwitz, Research Hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Old Faithful’s fame is well deserved.  The geyser has been erupting at regular intervals for as long as records exist, and it delights visitors from around the world with its eruptions of boiling water.  These eruptions regularly reach more than 130 feet (40 meters) and typically last for several minutes.

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Old Faithful is located in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, home to the densest concentration of geysers anywhere in the world.  In about 1 square mile (about 2.6 square kilometers) of area lie approximately 150 geysers!

There are no concrete records of what Native Americans might have thought of Old Faithful.  Obsidian flakes found at multiple locations around the Upper Geyser Basin, however, indicate that the area was well known to native peoples.  The first known Euro-American explorer to the Yellowstone region was John Colter, who explored the area alone in 1807-1808.  It is not known if Colter traversed the Upper Geyser Basin or witnessed eruptions of Old Faithful.  In 1864, a gold prospector named George Harvey Bacon reportedly traveled through the area with Native Americans and, according to one of his descendants, “spoke of a geyser which was regular in its eruptions and [which] later was called Old Faithful.”  A mountaineer also reportedly first witnessed the geyser in 1864 and reported that, to his knowledge, it had not missed an eruption between that year and the time he was interviewed, in 1883.

The first officially documented observations of the geyser came in 1870, with the Washburn-Doane-Langford expedition to the region.  The geyser was reportedly named by Nathanial Langford, who noted: “It spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay, the columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. We gave it the name of “Old Faithful.”  This name was confirmed by Ferdinand V. Hayden, who led the 1871 geological survey that resulted in- the establishment of Yellowstone as the world’s first national park in 1872. Of Old Faithful, Hayden wrote: “This geyser was named by Mr. N. P. Langford, and well sustains the reputation given it by the Doane and Washburn expedition of 1870. It has been called the Guardian of the Valley. It is so regular in its operations and they occur so frequently that it has afforded unusual facilities for observation.”

The time between Old Faithful eruptions has not remained constant over the years.  In the 1870s, explorers noted that the time between eruptions was 60-70 minutes.  This remained the case through the 1950s, but then began to lengthen to the average today, which is 94 +/- 10 minutes between eruptions.  About 2% of all eruptions are short, lasting only about 2.5 minutes.  Following these short eruptions, the time to the next eruption is likewise shorter, about 65 minutes.

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The lengthening of time between eruptions did not happen smoothly, but instead occurred as a result of nearby seismic events, including the 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake (Montana) earthquake, the 1975 M6.1 Norris Geyser Basin earthquake, and the 1983 M6.9 Borah Peak (Idaho) earthquake.  In the months following each of these events, the interval between eruptions at Old Faithful increased and maintained a new, longer time period.  For example, prior to the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake, Old Faithful erupted on average every 69–70 minutes, but 4 months after the earthquake the interval had increased and stabilized at 77–78 minutes.

There is also evidence that rainfall can impact Old Faithful eruption intervals.  During wet years, the interval is slightly less than during dry years, perhaps reflecting the greater volume of water that is available to feed eruptions.  So even climate has an impact on how Old Faithful works!

Old Faithful has attracted attention since the first explorers visited the area, and no doubt from generations of Native Americans before then.  The geyser is indeed a marvel, and like all of Yellowstone’s hydrothermal features, it is dynamic and ever changing.

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In Honor of July 4th, and our 23rd Anniversary we share Red Skelton performing a self-written monologue about the Pledge of Allegiance and Old Glory

A salute to Old Glory, we revisit an all-time classic rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1969, Red Skelton performed a self-written monologue about the Pledge of Allegiance at the first “Evening at the White House.” — with Red Skelton.

Old Glory History

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​When YOUNG,
I was WORRIED about MY PIMPLES.
When I am OLD,
I am WORRIED about MY WRINKLES.

When I was YOUNG,
I was WAITING to HOLD HER HAND.
When OLD,
I am WAITING for SOMEONE to HOLD MY HAND.

When I was YOUNG,
I was LONGING to be ALONE.
When I am OLD,
I am WORRIED why I am ALONE.

When I was YOUNG,
I HATED being ADVISED.
When I am OLD,
there is NO ONE around to TALK or ADVISE.

When I was YOUNG,
I ADMIRED BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
When I am OLD,
I see BEAUTY in THINGS around ME.

When I was YOUNG,
I felt I was ETERNAL.
When I am OLD,
I know SOON it will be MY TURN.

When I was YOUNG,
I CELEBRATED the MOMENTS.
When I am OLD,
I am CHERISHING MY MEMORIES.

When I was YOUNG,
I found it DIFFICULT to WAKE UP.
When OLD,
I find it DIFFICULT to SLEEP.

When I was YOUNG,
I WANTED to be a HEART – THROB.
When OLD,
I am WORRIED when will MY HEART STOP.

At EXTREME STAGES of OUR LIFE,
WE WORRY but WE DON’T REALIZE,
LIFE NEEDS to BE EXPERIENCED.

It DOESN’T MATTER whether YOUNG or OLD. LIFE needs to be LIVED and LIVED WITH LOVE & LOVED ONES on. You are surely one of these.

*A Wonderful Message and a Fact too?*

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The movie Love Story was released 50 years ago. Watch Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw, now 79 and 81 years old respectively, then and now in this cute one minute video.

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