Podcasts

Imagine yourself at 95

November 13, 2023

Ursula the cat mocks my earnest attempt at imagining myself at 95.

Age-related changes in writing practice

December 15, 2021

At 81 I notice changes in my writing practice. They’re entangled with various age-related cognitive changes. Not problems, just different.

A cat on a blanket opens her mouth wide and thinks, Dentist, dental hygienist, peridontist... OK

Cat thinkies—look after your teeth

May 28, 2019

Ursula 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

cartoon of old woman in a bottle labelled Oldie #2970 being studied by three young scientists

Ageing: it’s a thing—poem

March 28, 2019

Ageing 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…

11. How does blogging fit into your way of ageing, your life, and your concept of success?

August 22, 2018

Our 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 […]