But Wait—There's More...

Some additional links, to take you through the weekend.

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I tend to read, watch, and listen to a lot of Oldster-adjacent content. Every other Friday I’ll pass some of it along to you in a link roundup like this one.

***This Wednesday, I accidentally sent out a link roundup meant for today. But I have some more links (I always have more than email data limits allow anyway), so I’m sharing them.

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• So, yeah, on Wednesday I somehow managed to send out the link roundup I’d prepared for today. It’s a goodie! Here it is in case you missed it:

  Links and More Links...

• “With Generation X starting to turn 60, we finally get to be the seniors we’ve been acting like since our youth.” -

  Jeff Gordinier
  at The Globe and Mail. He kindly mentions Oldster and quotes yours truly:

  

• He made a great playlist to go along with it:

• “Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex” - Mireille Silcoff in The New York Times magazine.

• I want to get ahold of Shattered, 70-year-ld

  Hanif Kureishi
  ’s memoir about rebuilding his life after a fall in his late 60s left him unable to walk.

  

  Order the book…

• “I have a proposal: bring olders and youngers together to talk about age and power. I've dubbed this initiative YODA, for Youngers + Olders Dismantling Ageism.” - I love this idea from writer and O.G. anti-ageism activist

  Ashton Applewhite
  in Next Avenue.

• “This is our new normal—uncertainty all the time, at every moment, in all places.” - at Time, Economic Hardship Reporting Project director Alissa Quart writes, “How Insecurity Became the New Inequality.”

• “After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces.” - In The New York Times, Clay Risen writes the obituary for Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American in U.S. Army Nurse Corps and former Tuskegee Airman, who recently died at 104.

  

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• “Beatrice Stieber, 102, shares her secrets for a long life.” - CBS Mornings (h/t Sara Bader)

• There are still a few spots open for the Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference, where I’ll be leading a workshop and giving a craft talk.

  

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That’s a lot of links in one week. (And a lot of emails. I promise I won’t be sending out as many in future weeks!) It’s been a hell of a time, and hey, we all need ways to disassociate between doses of terrifying/batshit news, and speaking up about it. Happy to help with that...

Thanks for reading, and for all your support. 🙏 💝

-Sari