Age boom hastens the quest to live longer, better lives
Zerline Aronin is blind in one eye and uses a walker for balance even inside her one-bedroom Capitol Hill apartment.
But she still cooks breakfast every morning � oatmeal with fresh fruit � before showering and making up the bed without a wrinkle.
By midday, she's out the door in sensible shoes, pushing her walker to beat the stoplight at a busy Madison Street intersection. It's a few blocks to feed a flock of waiting pigeons, then a few more to the grocery or over to the fire station to have her blood pressure checked. On an occasional Saturday she sets out to synagogue around the corner.
That's several miles a week � not bad for a 102-year-old. By Marsha King ), Seattle Times