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.
Continue readingAt 81 I notice changes in my writing practice. They’re entangled with various age-related cognitive changes. Not problems, just different.
Continue readingUrsula the cat likes to practise opening her mouth wide, getting ready for a visit to a dental specialist this week. As a born-again premature Old Cat she likes to dish out advice
Continue readingAgeing was once a thing of the body / a thing of the mind / and a personal thing of the heart
but while we were sleeping our way through life/ ageing became a public issue/ a cause, a career, a competition…
Continue readingOur survey asked older bloggers whether their blogs reflected one of three theories of ageing, how important their blog was in their lives, and how they measured their blog’s success. To generalise and paraphrase, they replied “Bad question!” to the first, “Moderately important” to the second, and “I measure the success of my blog by […]
Continue readingFor decades now the ageing horde
has been a coming thing
looming and glooming and secretly booming
and while I’d been dreaming my life away