Archive - Oldster Magazine

A story about intergenerational friendship.

Nov 4 •

Links to a (🤞🏼) Better Future

A last ditch Friday link roundup to (🤞🏼) try and keep it all from going to Hell.

Nov 1 •

October 2024

Ask The East Village Yenta #4

"At this late stage of life I feel as if I’m only first getting to really know certain parts of myself..."

Oct 31 •

This is 68: Karen Salyer McElmurray Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

"I don’t so much feel old, as full of experiences I am only now learning to name more gently."

Oct 30 •

The Isley Brothers: Unsung Pioneers of Rock 'N Roll

Darrell M. McNeil interrogates the factors that led an influential musical group to be excluded from a category they very much belonged in, for seven…

Oct 28 •

Darrell M. McNeill

An excerpt of "Alice's Big Book of Mistakes," a graphic memoir. PLUS: a Friday Open Thread about our smoking habits, and quitting.

Oct 25 •

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On the Path to 60 #2: "At 50 it Stops"

And thank goodness for that. "The Substance" and me.

Oct 24 •

This is 62: Trebor Healy Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

“'Build a soul' is my motto, and the more you do that, the less it’s about you and your milestones and the more it’s about the community around you or…

Oct 23 •

Fashion Was in My DNA, Wasn't It?

Following in my mother’s footsteps when the shoes no longer fit.

Oct 21 •

Something Something "Link Roundup"

(I should probably come up with a standard headline for these that I reuse!) Some Oldster-adjacent content for you, plus The Oldster Top 10: new music…

Oct 18 •

Another 5 Questions: Peter Moore

An addendum to the 67-year-old cartoonist's Oldster Magazine Questionnaire, considering the five new questions that were recently added.

Oct 16 •

Ask a Sober Oldster #16: Author Kristi Coulter

"I don’t think being in recovery is hard. I think life is hard, and there is real horror in understanding that drinking cannot actually alter reality."

Oct 15 •

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