How do you launch a book without any input from the author? That was a novel challenge for the publisher, because normally the author is the star of the launch. Poet and artist Jan Fitzgerald was unable to participate even virtually, so Mary McCallum of Cuba Press cooked up another plan. She invited fellow poets […]
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Once I had a waist. Now I don’t have a waist, and I am programmed to perceive that as ugly. Why must we hate our new shape? Why must we struggle for the impossible?
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We may have 40 years to live after 60. They are not blancmange years: they are vivid and constantly changing, just like the rest of life.
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Although he is barely middle aged, Tim Dowling has a keen eye for how things have changed for him while growing old. He got me thinking.
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This talk is about my reaction to learning I was likely to live to 99. I buckled down and prepared for old age—my way. Age Concern Conference 2021.
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