At his birthday party on Wednesday, Morrie Markoff was telling me about his family’s rough ride through the pandemic. “He’s now the 24th oldest person in the United States,” said Morrie’s son, Steve, who hosted the birthday party in his back yard in Pacific Palisades. At his party, Morrie was thinking, talking and even singing to his wife Betty, who died at 103. Morrie emailed me to say we should “hang around,” because the same thing had happened to him the day before he turned 99. He called it “Keep Breathing,” which was his long-running answer to anyone who asked him the secret of a long life.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2022 00:57 UTC