#ageing

Was I A Spoiled American?

The place I’d rented sight unseen was a dungeon. Friends wrote ‘just leave.’ But it wasn’t that easy. Maybe I needed to adjust my…

What Is the Point of Living Longer?

What ikigai, community, and the search for meaning can teach us about ageing well

We Built Faster Lives and Gave Our Parents the Leftover Minutes

Migration, work, attention and the family relationships that survive on unscheduled time.

The Price of Wisdom

And the quiet Alchemy of Aging

Today’s Summer Heat Scares Me

I’ve never been a big fan of summer; mostly I hated baring my arms. At 81, mortality enters the picture

I’m Resisting Being Discarded By Society As I Age

On ageing, art, and the race against the societal erasure of me

Gentleman of Leisure Stories

The soundtrack remains, but the storytellers who created it are leaving us one by one

Bald and Bold but surely not Old!

Age is but a number. Getting old is ordained by the laws of nature, but feeling old is a choice. I follow this dictum and declare I have…

A Trans Woman Gets Closer to Fine

The first day of a new decade begins

Drifter’s Diaries

Road to Port Stanley

Too Late Now, But I Wish I’d Had More Patience

A lot of things about my mum drove me crazy, especially her resistance to hearing aids

Walking the Camino de Santiago Was My Dream — for a Day

Dreams and goals — sometimes we chase them and sometimes we let go of some of them

Why be a WAG when you can be a WOW?

Not because one is better. But because one is a chapter — and the other is the whole story.

For One Magical Evening, I Left the Country of Old Age

It doesn’t take much to change perspective, even if its only temporary

I Love the Sound of My Own Voice

But not amplified by my new apparels auditifes

At 54, Broke and Divorced, I Pointed a Bicycle West and Tried to Outrun My Own Life

What riding a bicycle across America taught one middle-aged man about fear, starting over, and whether it is ever really too late.

I Thought He Was Dead. The Computer Knew Better

Forty years of silence, a blinking cursor, and the beer I still owe him

A Free Senior Exercise Class That Has Run for Seventeen Years

I watched a short video this week, and I cannot stop thinking about it

Participation

Now

The Good Life

This old jalopy keeps on going

The Holiday Dilemma of the (Semi) Retired Crowd

How do you celebrate a day that is much like every other day?

Looking Up and Back

Free Verse

Why Do I Anticipate the Worst?

Catastrophising over unanswered phone calls or unread messages is my default reaction. At 81, it doesn’t feel quite so irrational

Why Feeling Lost At 20 Is Actually Normal

Nobody tells you that confusion is part of the process. Here’s what the silence is really saying.

The Original Agreement

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Sirolimus: how rapamycin may shape the future of treating age-related diseases.

Biomedical research faces increasing challenges, as the growing demand for new therapies, driven by rising rates of disease in current…

Help! I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

When things that once seemed far in the distant future suddenly come to pass

The Toxic Myth of Ageing Gracefully

And how we can challenge it

Silver Economy Blueprint: The Clock Is Already Running — Part II

The second tier of the silver economy is not about retirement planning. It is about staying in the game — and building the infrastructure…

The Emotional side of Growing Old

For many people, the hardest part of getting old isn’t the illness that comes with it but the feeling that the world has stopped needing…

My Profile Picture Was Taken on My 78th Birthday

Now I’m 81. Time for an update? It’s complicated . . .

Sometimes Clothes Know Us Better Than Mirrors

When Friends Laugh About Clothes…

Numbered Days:

A Meditation on Being 84

Time for an update on my 10-year plan

It’s been a few months since I last wrote about my 10-year plan. You can read the original post HERE.

Movement Is Life: The Case for Just Starting

Why Sitting All Day Ages You Faster Than Missing the Gym

Most people believe they are doing enough for their health if they squeeze in a short workout each day.

Nobody Is Ready for What Is Coming: Part I

The world is ageing faster than any industry is prepared for. Here is the investment case nobody is framing correctly — yet.

The Gray Hair Movement: Rethinking Beauty, Age, and Identity

Gray hair has always carried meaning — but modern culture taught us to overlook it.

Was it age, or was it natural idiocy?

Sunday I tackled my hardest grounds-keeping chore — trimming the vine at the top of my condo’s rear, 8’ fence. This was the first trimming…

Can We Reverse Ageing?

Can We Reverse Ageing?

The Bio-Physiological Pathogenesis of Premature Senescence in Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Users

Neapolitan Songs

The music we carry through time and travel

10 Things I Quit After 50 — And 10 I Will Not Give Up

A personal reflection on letting go, choosing better, and coming home to who you really are.

Saturday Night Live at the Village Cafe

French village life is boring, a California friend had warned. After 13 years, I know better

America, Your Fat

by Buck Sexton for Money and Power

The Woman Who Emerges After 50

Ageing as a path of awareness, power, and reconnection

The Subtle Habit That’s Quietly Ageing Skin Faster in Dubai Homes

It doesn’t start outside. It starts at home.

Time, Aging, and the Human Body in Space

Could the Cosmos Change How We Experience Life—and Disease?

The double pressure of ageing as an artist

I’ll soon be 38. And while this doesn’t bother me — okay, I’m lying: I dislike the wrinkles slowly settling on my forehead — reaching this…

Dear Lord, This Getting-Old Bit is a Real Pain!

The things no one told me about advancing years…but I think I really should have known!