Podcasts

Aging beauty — instant poem

October 12, 2022

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

Guilty happy: a sunny winter day between storms

July 23, 2022

So it’s a calm, sunny winter day after a week of wild winds and thunderous rainfall. I feel a guilty happiness, enjoying what so recently was normal.

drawing of old person doing a cartwheel. 5 people cheering.

You know you are old when…

January 17, 2019

A poem listing a few good things that demarcate old age from youth: respect, letting go, lower expectations, ignoring trivial rules…

About your personal life expectancy

December 31, 2017

Here I wrote about my undignified response upon discovering that I was likely to live to about 98 or 99. Now you can listen to an episode on the topic in my podcast, How to be old. http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct02/attitudes.aspx