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Q: Who Qualifies As An Oldster? A: Everyone. Here's Why...
Oldster Magazine is not like other aging-related media. A word about how and why I'm exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body—*at…
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Sari Botton
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The Fountain of Youth is a Coffee Maker
And lots of other useful, Oldster-adjacent content. PLUS: "The Oldster Top 10," Cliff Chenfeld's monthly playlist of new songs for old ears.
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I Don't Know Why #7
"I no longer have a red dot on my nose and I don’t know why." The seventh installment of an occasional Oldster Magazine column by bestselling novelist…
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This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
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This is 86: Retired Psychologist/Painter Bella Ruth Bader Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
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The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire Live with Rosie O’Donnell
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How to Lengthen Your Life
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This is 81: Jon Carroll Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"In my 30s I traveled to New York a great deal, met extremely interesting people, got hired for extremely interesting work, and ate a lot of good food…
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What Kinds of Birds We Are
While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and…
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Ecstasy for Easter
"Changing our minds in one afternoon." PLUS: A Friday Open Thread on our experiences with MDMA and other psychedelics...
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Growing Old in the White House
On Biden and ageism.
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This is 85: Filmmaker Jo-Ann "Jody" Wilhelm Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Everything that happened to me over the years, whether it was good or bad, made me stronger, wiser, and empathetic. What we survive can make us…
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I Want You Back
On First Love and Michael Jackson
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What's Good
An Oldster Magazine Friday Link Roundup with plenty to read, watch, and listen to this weekend.
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Aging is Power When You Let It Come Through You
The joy of limits and the secret riches of aging
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This is 95: Artist and Holocaust Survivor Tibor Spitz Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"In essence, my birthday is every day."
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Hope? Ha Ha Ha Ha...
In her early 80s, Abigail Thomas has her doubts about the future of humanity and life after death.
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Abigail Thomas
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This is 54: Cheryl Strayed Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Fifty-four years of living has taught me that I can persist through the hard times—and also that hard times pass."
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Sari Botton
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The Art of Healing
Stumbling upon some paintings she made 16 years ago while being treated for cancer, Viney Kirpal is reminded of the meditative power of art-making, and…
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Letter to My Younger Self #3: About What Happened in Chinatown
Lani V. Cox addresses her 16-year-old self, a girl who underwent plastic surgery at her mother's urging and emerged determined to never let others…
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This is 68: Celeste Lecesne Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Ever since I was a child, I had a sense that my life would really take off when I was in my 60s. And this has turned out to be true."
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Sari Botton
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Keeping My Promise to Popo
As Anne Liu Kellor says goodbye to her Chinese grandmother in the hospital, she taps into buried memories and family trauma.
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Anne Liu Kellor
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This is 71: Art Critic Jerry Saltz Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"On the inside I feel the exact same as I did when I was like 45, so outside I act that way."
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This is 92: Hilma Wolitzer Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I loved being young, and I don’t terribly mind being an old woman, but I refuse to be an old girl—someone who’s coy about her age."
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This is 52: Rashunda Tramble Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I’m blessed to have grown up with women who didn’t have to scream that they were old, beautiful, and proud because it was a given."
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In Conversation: Neko Case and Jacinta Bunnell
Listen in as they discuss old friendships, getting older, cloth adult diapers, Oldster Magazine, and more...
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Burning it Down
After shearing off her dyed hair and growing it out silver, Joy Castro considers the thrill and terror that come with setting oneself free.
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Joy Castro
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