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Letter from the Editor #29
Readers,
Thanks for all the good wishes for my mom, who, as I mentioned last week, has been sick. I’m still on Long Island caring for her, and I’m happy to report she is slowly but steadily getting better.
As many Oldster contributors ha...
This is 88: Sandra Butler 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...
Holding Hands
Yi Xue and her Mother a few years ago.
I could hear Mom’s breathing in the cramped room, shallow and raspy. She was recovering from the short walk between the waiting area and the exam room. It was not a good day for her—there had been day...
It’s Great to Have Younger Friends—Most of the Time
Hal Rubenstein, second from right, with some friends in their 20s and 30s during the holidays last year.
Last December, my husband David and I hosted 30 people who came to celebrate our ridiculously grandiose, over-ornamented Christmas tre...
Forgiving My 102-Year-Old Mom
Readers,
Today we have an essay by writer and filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum about forgiving her harsh and difficult mother, and bonding with her—to the point that she is able to now serve as her mother’s nearly fulltime caretaker.
Getting...
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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.
Expanding the definition of recovery, but no longer on Substack. Just go to www.thesmallbow.com to see what we're up to.
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
Author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes, and the not-novel Watching the Detective (out 11/18/25). Publisher of B-Side Editions.
Writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. Latest novel: Last Night at the Disco. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. 2025 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow. I run the Novel Reactor workshops.
Author of THE BLUE DRESS, a novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant w/body image & mother-daughter relationship struggles, published March 24, 2026, from Macmillan's FSG.
Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life. Edited by Sari Botton.
Author, illustrator, researcher, mediocre mom. Anti-capitalist mega-consumer. Lover of books and fatal mistakes.
Writer, playwright, director, peace activist
Viney was professor of English at the Indian Institiute of Tehnology, Bombay(1974-97), a corporate soft skills consultant and coach. Today she is a health and personal writer in American and national publications.
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