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Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.
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What I Learned on the Aging Beat
In her early sixties, Marcia DeSanctis often toggles between the roles of beauty/wellness journalist and lab specimen.
Marcia DeSanctis
May 20
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This Is (Almost) 67: Brian Morton Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I like to think about the past a lot, so I often feel like every age I've ever been, but mostly I feel like I'm turning 67 this summer."
Sari Botton
May 18
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Q: Who Qualifies As An Oldster? A: Everyone. Here's Why...
Oldster Magazine is not AARP. A word about how and why I'm exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body—*at every phase of life.*
Sari Botton
Apr 22
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This Is Where it Breaks
Surfing through midlife.
Liza Monroy
May 16
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Everything (Really Is) Fine
Kim France
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It Could Happen to You (and Probably Will)
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Goddamned Beautiful
Jennifer Niesslein
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When Your Mother Looks Younger Than You
Blair Glaser
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California, Coming Home
Meghan Daum
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Saying No, Fifty Years Later
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This is 56: Robert Lucy Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"As a young person I couldn’t imagine the happiness that I have found in later life with my husband and my dog and my work."
Sari Botton
May 13
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Saying No, Fifty Years Later
I recognized a face on our Facebook alumni page as a secret I'd kept—the teacher who molested me.
jodi sh. doff
May 11
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This is 57: Ayun Halliday Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I dress like a ragamuffin, dance around, and make zines….and yet, I know I must seem impossibly old to friends in their 20s and 30s."
Sari Botton
May 9
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The End of Choice
A link roundup.
Sari Botton
May 8
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Limelight
What my mother—and a strange flower—taught me about ten seconds' worth of time.
Leslie Kendall Dye
May 6
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This is 66: Michael Musto Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Interestingly, I remember getting made fun of for being 'old' when I was 30, but not now. Either the world has changed or I’m simply radiating…
Sari Botton
May 3
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Owning My Worth
At 62, in the midst of a career shift, Jessica Handler reconsiders the value of her work.
Jessica Handler
May 2
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Mortality, and How Best to Avoid It
When was the first time you were confronted with your inevitable demise?
Kevin Mandel
Apr 29
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When Your Mother Looks Younger Than You
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California, Coming Home
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Saying No, Fifty Years Later
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