After turning 70, Alese Johnston committed to trying 70 new things within a year. This decision was sparked by reading an article by a 60-year-old writer who felt he had become boring. Johnston established a website, Fabulous70.com, and created a spreadsheet of new activities to try. The only criterion for these activities was that they had to be things she’d never done before. Her first new experience was eating a nem, a type of spring roll, at a local supper club.