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Letter from the Editor #48
Readers,
This week Brian and I are hard at work on cobbling together Episode 3 of The Oldster Radio Hour, our most ambitious episode yet—a mini-documentary on the physical, cognitive, and psychological benefits of lifelong friendship that...
This is 65: Retired Social Worker, Photographer, and Memoirist Angelica Glass Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
From the time I was 10, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to grow older. I’m curious about what it means to others, of all ages, and so I invite them to take “The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.”
Sometimes you’ll find respo...
Sometimes, Parents Don’t Like their Children
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We don’t talk about it much, but it’s true. They wished they could’ve chosen differently from the catalog of kids. Or, they thought they’d be the ones kneading the dough and adding the spices, so surely they’d end...
Keeping Score
Laurie Frankel, right, as a child, with her grandmother.
When the Orioles came to Baltimore in 1954, my grandparents were losing too much money at the track. Pimlico Race Course had been a Maryland institution since the 1870s, so baseball...
The Every-Other-Friday(ish) Link Roundup
Photo by Barbara Burgess on Unsplash
I tend to read, watch, and listen to a lot of Oldster-adjacent content. Every other Friday (or so) I’ll pass some of it along to you in a Link Roundup like this one. If you like what you’re reading here...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Sari Botton is the author of the memoir "And You May Find Yourself." She edited two bestselling anthologies: "Goodbye to All That" and "Never Can Say Goodbye." She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism.
A native of Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales is essayist, critic and short story scribe, He writes for CrimeReads, The Oxford American, Soulhead.com, Catapult (The Blacklist) and Oldster. His Twitter handle is @gonzomike. On Instagram: bigmike151
Expanding the definition of recovery, but no longer on Substack. Just go to www.thesmallbow.com to see what we're up to.
Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life. Edited by Sari Botton.
Writer. Reader. CEO Mom. Love a #Dancebreak. #GlutenFree #DairyFree #EggFree culinary wizard. I'm interested, curious and have opinions.
Senior producer of the Oldster Radio Hour podcast
I’m either the 73rd, 22nd, 54th, or 3rd funniest writer on Substack, depending on how the algorithm is feeling about me that day. Which is in itself hilarious.
I'm a NYTimes bestselling author of four novels that each tell the story of a lesbian or gay character in the 1900s. I work at an independent bookstore and live with my partner, our rescue dog, and a feisty backyard chicken in upstate New York.
I'm a writer and former magazine editor who was for nearly 16 years the beauty director at O, The Oprah Magazine. I split my time between New York and Tokyo. valeriemonroe.substack.com
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I'm a newer writer, an older actor, a late-blooming bride, and a stepmother and god grandmother-in-training. Welcome to the ongoing absurdities of my reinventing world.
Travel is the music of my soul. I am globetrotter who has taken two solo trips around the world and visited 70 countries. I am the editor of two travel anthologies. www.ugogurl.com
writer. reader. night owl. former new yorker. child of holocaust survivors.
Candy Schulman's essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, AARP, and elsewhere. She is a writing professor at The New School and has completed a memoir.
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