Geezer Commune

A guy who works with me pointed us at this NY Times front page article featuring his parents' "commune." His father is the physicist in the article who is "perpetually clad in purple socks and sandals." (Growing up, my work colleague remembers poking around Edward Teller's prosthetic leg at his parents' parties, and sleeping in a radioactive sleeping bag in which his father once surreptitiously slept in the desert to observe the Trinity atomic test -- but that is another story.)

Opting for old age on their own terms, they were starting a new chapter in their lives as residents of Glacier Circle, the country's first self-planned housing development for the elderly — a community they had conceived and designed themselves, right down to its purple gutters.

It's an interesting idea, enough to make it to the top spot on the most EMailed NYTimes articles for a while.