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Good footsteps

Living a creative life after retirement

by Eve Silberman

posted 1/15/2011

Members of Joan Zald's family tend to live long lives, but not happy ones. After watching a favorite aunt begin to "socially withdraw" in her late sixties and become obsessed with her health, Zald worried that she, too, would experience old age as joyless and unproductive. So, as the social worker and photographer approached her own seventieth birthday in 2004,

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