The new version of Instagram that's shown up so far only on my iPad is dreadful.

‘The women in my neck of the woods in eastern Vermont are professional agers. They do it with great style and can do more chin-ups than I will ever be able to’

I think a senior love connection might have just happened in the comments on an Oldster piece...?

Do you think he's going to tel...os anything more? Or mission accomplished?

To recap, negging unfortunately works.

Maybe he got a cease-and-desist.

When is he going to Tel...os more?

When is he going to Tel...os more?

Fun chat about memoir and hypnagogic inspiration with @saribotton.bsky.social (“Hypnagogic”? Hint: It’s a great excuse for a nap! 😁) #memoir #writersofbluesky #amwriting #readinglist #bookchat

ZZ Slop

Maybe she’s hanging out somewhere with Roman’s kids from Season 1 of Succession.

Totally random but what happened to Alex Levy’s daughter from season 1 of The Morning Show?

When a new building goes up in Manhattan the island actually gets a bit *lighter* because the “Manhattan rock” (limestone) excavated to make way for the foundation weighs more than the building itself. (h/t tour guide on The Circle Line)

Case in point. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Walton Goggins could convincingly play Bush 2. (I’m a casting agent now.)

I don’t know why it surprises me that garbage people gravitate towards each other, given how many times I’ve seen this bear out.

Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social for featuring my Memoir Land questionnaire in this roundup. I love everything you do and wish we lived closer to each other so we could hang out. @melvillehouse.bsky.social The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review... open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

My brain always conflated Air Mail and Puck, so it’s convenient for me that they will now be conflated in an official capacity.

Honored that my HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton.bsky.social's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.” www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

Team Personal Essays, obviously. (That's me, circa July 2019, wearing a gift from a houseguest.)

"I love the flow state and feeling like I enter another dimension while creating." Wonderful interview with @saribotton.bsky.social and @oldstermag.bsky.social! MOTION DAZZLE by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social is out now from @vineleavespress.bsky.social.

Amy Rigby!!!

This is next Weds! I spoke with @joedonahue.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social's Roundtable about it yesterday. It's going to be fun.... www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for publishing an excerpt from FONSECA. Fitzgerald, who didn’t publish her first novel until she was 60, would have been delighted with @oldstermag.bsky.social, I think. #penelopefitzgerald #booksky

This quote is such a gut punch.

Get ready for the 1st @oldstermag.bsky.social event at Unicorn Bar in Kingston, NY Weds., 10/1, the night before my 60th birthday. Featuring: Amy Rigby, Chris Wells, Joan Juliet Buck, Carolita Johnson, Brian Macaluso, Francesca Hoffman, and, of course, me! Get tix: www.viewcy.com/event/oldste...

In my next life I’m coming back as a member of the Dimes Square scene so that those publications obsessed with it will take even a passing interest in my work.

Team Liz Gilbert. Team memoir. Team wearing your insides on the outside, even when (especially when) they're not very attractive, so that the others of us with similar insides can better understand them. Team progress not perfection. Team...I'm away on vacation so I'm not going to respond.

Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including me in the wonderful Memoir Land author questionnaire. If you’re not subscribed, you should be!

Happy 22nd anniversary of the August, 2003 east coast blackout to all who celebrate. Here's a remembrance of it by @brianmacaluso.bsky.social. memoirland.substack.com/p/lights-out

"The restaurant was dimly lit, particularly toward the back, where the bar is. Maybe he couldn’t see that I have a full head of gray hair. That I’m almost 60. That I was wearing a wedding band." - moi oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

Sari can get it! I have had to keep starting and stopping her memoir asking myself “why are men?” So I’m thrilled to read this - for both her loving marriage and a sweet encounter with a nice young man. 💪

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

. @saribotton.bsky.social has got it going on. Seriously. Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny. oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

Diary of an almost-60-year-old who was told she'd soon be invisible. oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

TSA Pre, or Global Entry? (Traveling to Portugal at the end of this month.)

How I Learned magazine is LIVE and Jennifer Stewart has a few things to say to you. Come in, come in, and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...

Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social

How do you feel about "dressing your age"? Weigh in here: oldster.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Was just thinking I want a do-over for this summer—an oppressive extended heatwave, at least where I am. It’s kept me from being outside in the sunshine, a necessary balm at any time, but even more so in these times. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

🧵GAZA I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can. If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza. Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social. ♥️ memoirland.substack.com/p/why-mr-bau...

I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin... Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.

What my husband lovingly calls my "media empire." substack.com/@saribotton

Adding my voice to the chorus that’s been recalling the excesses at Condé Nast, back when they had nothing but money to burn. adventuresinjournalism.substack.com/p/one-haircu...

substack.com/@memoirland/... Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social

Just a few weeks ago, the awesome @saribotton.bsky.social let me do the @oldstermag.bsky.social Q-and-A. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-65...

“I just say what I want most of the time. I think I’m still restricted by my history of being an Asian model minority + a woman to boot. But I try to assert my voice now. I refuse to stay silent and obedient.” -Helena Rho takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-59...