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I Don't Know Why #1
"I still shave my legs and I don’t know why." The first installment of a new occasional Oldster Magazine column by bestselling novelist Laura Lippman.
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Laura Lippman
91
The Last Lecture
Shawn Assael talks to his retirement-resistant 88-year-old dad about what it means to stop working.
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Shaun Assael
47
Notes On Another New Life #14
Pressing the Pause Button
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Laurie Stone
97
Know Your Nonagenarians
At 75, Melanie Chartoff is grateful to have older, wiser mentors.
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Melanie Chartoff
56
A Word to the Unwise
Confessions of a grieving fool.
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Shalom Auslander
116

March 2024

It's a Long Way Down
"Like hundreds of thousands of men in their early 60s across the country, I was forced to start to get used to the idea that the marketplace may be…
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Ray Suarez
100
(Don't) Act Your Age
"Who ruled that I shouldn't be on a skateboard? Who decreed that this type of fun was over for me? I don't want to actually be younger..."
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Caroline
49
Notes On Another New Life #13
Start in the middle and fail to arrive.
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Laurie Stone
44
A Birthday Spent Mostly Alone—but not Lonely
An excerpt of David W. Berner's forthcoming "Daylight Saving Time: The Power of Growing Older"
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David W. Berner
52
Letter To My Younger Self # 6: “Don’t take things personally. And meditate!”
After emerging from a difficult year that reminds her of an earlier hard time, 61-year-old musician Ann Klein gives her 7-year-old self a pep talk.
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Ann Klein
28
On Longevity, and the Stubborn Gene
Julie Metz witnesses the defiant aging of her father and his second wife and contemplates how her own relationship to risky hiking has changed.
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Julie Metz
58

February 2024

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