As we  get closer to “Hanami Festival—Through the Eyes of Seniors” (the Double Nickels Theatre Company production in conjunction with the Cherry Blossom Festival), we thought we’d take you down memory lane with a look at the Cherry Blossom celebration in 1944. Our conversations with seniors have been incredible, and this is shaping up to [...]

Recently I had a chance to celebrate my 70th birthday with my good friend JC Hayward, who recently reached a milestone of her own as she celebrates her 39th year as news anchor at WUSA9. Click here to connect to JC’s webpage, and to check out the photos from our High Tea! —Antoinette Ford     [...]

  By Antoinette Ford When I was about ten years old my grandfather’s mother (Grandmom Mathis) would visit my grandmother’s mother, (Grandma Phyllis) every Sunday after church. They were both in their 60s—at a time when 60 was considered old! Yet they were good friends who were eager to maintain a close bond between the [...]