Age-related changes in writing practice
At 81 I notice changes in my writing practice. They’re entangled with various age-related cognitive changes. Not problems, just different.
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Engaging With Aging: how a 99-year-old tackles old age
What’s it really like to be extremely old? What are the everyday challenges of aging at home? Engaging With Aging answers these questions.
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The rise of the new unyoung — a poem
It’s the lot of our lot to figure it out
nobody but us, the oldish,
the unyoung, the new old, can work it out
how to be the age we are
Too old to write another book?
Writer’s block, Part 1 I wrote the first draft of the first chapter of my next book. Unconcerned as always about the quality or even the topic, because a first draft is just that. (Significantly, the chapter was called I didn’t want to write this book.) Months have passed since I wrote that first chapter. […]
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Fermenting foods to soothe an older gut
So much fermentation in my kitchen! How come? Old digestive systems grow a bit cranky and tender. And it’s so irritating when you realise you can’t handle quite as much coffee as in your wild and wicked years of youth. But that’s not why my kitchen has gradually become a bacteria brewery. For years I’ve […]
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