Pablo Picasso wrote, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” These individuals—chefs, actors, dancers, music lovers, and visual artists—found their way home.
Death Valley Junction is no field of dreams. But for fifty years, dancer Marta Becket built it into an oasis of creative expression. She rescued a ghost town theater, and they came in droves.
Jerrie Thill, a 93-year-old jazz drummer, started playing in her teens and never stopped. Allee Willis (who wrote the “Friends” theme) created a fabulous music video to honor her.
Leo Fender has been called “The Henry Ford of electric guitar.” But this late-blooming rock innovator started out as an accountant and didn’t even know how to play or tune a guitar!
An epistolary memoir sent via iPad from a woman in her 80s who enthusiastically embraces art, technology, and what the future may bring.
At age 58, Merryfield retired from NatWest Bank to pursue acting professionally and became a beloved TV figure. “I’m in the enviable position of being an actor with a pension.”
At age 17, Mary Granville Delany was married off to a ogre who died and left her penniless seven years later. Yet at 43, she completely reinvented her life.
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