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Ramona At Midlife, Brooke at Midlife…
Fifty-four-year-old filmmaker Brooke Berman on refusing to let gendered ageism sideline her from making her passion project, "Ramona at Midlife," now on…
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Brooke Berman
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How About Some Links?
A roundup...
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Sari Botton
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For Better and For Worse #1: Patti Pagliei and John Simpson
What makes a long relationship work? The authors of "The Way of Wonder" on writing together, co-running their jewelry company "Waxing Poetic," and…
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Sari Botton
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This is 75: Joyce Wadler Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"When I was a kid, 75 was old — like housedresses and orthopedic shoes for the women and for the men, dead."
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Sari Botton
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Ask a Sober Oldster #4: Kevin Teare
"I was tricked into recovery by an artist who lived on the Bowery."
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Sari Botton
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A.J. Daulerio
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It Took Six Years for Me to Say Two Words
After a major car accident 17 years ago, Judith Hannah Weiss learned that some things can be replaced, but your brain isn’t one of them.
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Judith Hannah Weiss
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An Interview with Dar Williams
The 56-year-old singer-songwriter talks with Cliff Chenfeld—a former music exec who signed her to his label for several records—about her more than 30…
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Sari Botton
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Notes On Another New Life #7
Killing It: On Selena Gomez and "Only Murders in the Building"
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Laurie Stone
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This is 64: Mark Ernest Pothier Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I’m one of those people who often gets told: 'You have an old soul.'"
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Sari Botton
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Not Over It #1: Hitting Replay on My First Memory
Janice Levine can't stop revisiting an incident that took place 70 years ago.
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Janice Levine
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Links Galore
A roundup. Plus: A playlist of summer songs you all helped curate...
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Sari Botton
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Don't Let the Sun Go Down
Alison Lowenstein finds it increasingly difficult to see—and drive—at night.
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Alison Lowenstein
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