Edna Shalala, 96
retired lawyer
Miami
Classroom, courtroom: I retired from teaching when I passed the Bar in 1952. I practiced law for 50 years and retired in 2002. Now I spend half the year in Cleveland and the other half with my daughter Donna at the University of Miami.
On the go: I do everything a young person does -- classes, lectures, water exercises, yoga. I used to play tennis. For many years I belonged to a health club in Cleveland. Down here I go the wellness center.
Ouch! I broke my wrist before Christmas. I was riding in the cart to get the mail when it sort of jumped and threw me off into the bushes. The cast is off but it's still painful. After it heals I'll play golf again.
More olive oil, please: I make Mediterranean food, and I have soup and salad when we go out. I'm not a heavy meat eater and I can't drink wine because I'm taking Lipitor and heart medicine. I never was much of a liquor drinker.
Exercising caution: I had a stroke when I was 89, so I won't go in the pool unless the housekeeper is around with her birds.
Class in session: I attend UM's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (www.miami.edu/olli). We have classes on photography, art, language, computers. . . . A Ph.D talked about international politics, the big picture of the Mideast and the problems. A great art instructor used video to teach the history of the artists. Dr. Eugene Greco from the music school gives us a whole panorama of what's happening.
Clinton era: I was at the White House many times when Donna was secretary of Health and Human Services. It was exciting, everyone dressed up, the decorations, the food and the service. It was very impressive to see everybody walking in behind the president and getting to go in line and meet the president. I met him more often than I met Hillary.
