Podcasts

Impromptu ode to the weeping elm of youth

November 10, 2024

We have much pleasure in remembering how six girls can play in and on a weeping elm.

A taxonomy of aging based on the elder tree

February 22, 2024

Another attempt to find inoffensive terms for the inoffensive concept of being almost old, old, and extremely old. It’s fun.

An age-diverse cast reflects temporal vertigo in old people

November 5, 2023

Why use actors in their 40s, 50s, 70s and 80s for characters in their 90s? The director of Secret Lives of Extremely Old People has good reasons.

Aging beauty — instant poem

October 12, 2022

Inspired by an old wooden fence I sing in praise of older humans also

Old woman wearing purple hat, red sweater, purple brooch, red boots, five rings and two necklaces.

What are you wearing, old woman?—a poem about disruptive senior style

June 21, 2019

What are you wearing, old woman?/ Are you in Jenny Joseph red / with a purple hat that doesn’t go?/Or are you in sloppy old workout clothes/ because you might work out today/(you never know)