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

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

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

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.

I wrote a thing for @oldstermag.bsky.social

“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...

Happy Friday. Here's a beast of a link roundup to take you through the weekend... oldster.substack.com/p/what-to-re...

16 years ago Michael Jackson passed away. As a fan since boyhood I took it hard. Thankfully I could connect the songs he sang on solo and with his brothers to many pleasant memories including an early crush. Check out my @oldstermag.bsky.social essay "I Want You Back" for the full story.

"I wonder: what is it like for young music fans today, with unlimited access to their favorite artists? Part of the allure for me was the elusive hunt for the rare and unheard." - David Begler (one of my oldest friends) in @oldstermag.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/some-day-w...

Incidentally, the person who recommended "From Strength to Strength" to me said it was by "that old guy who writes for The Atlantic." TIL Arthur C. Brooks is 61, just a little more than a year older than me. 👵👴 oldster.substack.com/p/resisting-...

Got an @oldstermag.bsky.social Friday Link Roundup for you... oldster.substack.com/p/the-founta...

At @oldstermag.bsky.social I had a great conversation with my 82-year-old uncle about his reluctance to fully retire from ophthalmic surgery. (He also reveals he hates "Doctor My Eyes," which Jackson Browne performed at his foundation's gala last year. 😂) oldster.substack.com/p/resisting-...

New piece by @kristinohlson.bsky.social about an ecstasy trip she took with her partner, in their 70s. PLUS a Friday Open Thread for sharing our own experiences with psychedelics. oldster.substack.com/p/ecstasy-fo...

"Why did Biden’s age become such a big deal for him, but not for Donald Trump (just three years Biden’s junior) or other politicians of a similar age?..." - @smotus.bsky.social in Oldster today. oldster.substack.com/p/growing-ol...

"Her name was Helen and from the moment we met, my first schoolboy crush was ignited. Unfortunately the only Michael she was interested in was Jackson." @michaelagonzalez.bsky.social in Oldster today. oldster.substack.com/p/i-want-you...

Happy Friday. I made you an Oldster Magazine Link Roundup... oldster.substack.com/p/whats-good

Come for @saribotton.bsky.social ‘s thoughtful questions, stay for the ridiculous photos of me from 40 years ago. I’m in the new @oldstermag.bsky.social questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-65...

Thank you, @saribotton.bsky.social . It’s so cool to be in @oldstermag.bsky.social !

”Like many people, no doubt, I view being in my 60s very differently than the way I viewed my parents when they were in their 60s.” @keithroysdon.bsky.social responds to The @oldstermag.bsky.social Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-65...

Got an Oldster Magazine Friday Link Roundup for you, with plenty to read, watch, and listen to this weekend…and an open thread question at the end. oldster.substack.com/p/scroll-this

Movie Mike Mayfair Theatre, Baltimore --photo/Maggie Wrigley City of Stars oldster.substack.com/p/city-of-st... Cinema and the City memoirland.substack.com/p/cinema-and... ​Into the Cinema, Onto the Page magazine.catapult.co/people/stori... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @oldstermag.bsky.social

Diahann Carroll on Julia was my first TV mom crush and the second autograph I ever got. Check out "City of Stars" in @oldstermag.bsky.social for the whole story. oldster.substack.com/p/city-of-st...

Check out this interview I did with @oldstermag.bsky.social . And then check out all the great content at Oldster.

Today at Oldster, veteran beauty editor @thisisvalmonroe.bsky.social offers smart, simple skin care advice. PLUS: An open thread where you can share your skin care secrets... oldster.substack.com/p/how-to-sav...

Northwestern High, class of 1981. Prom night is supposed to be a special, memorable night, but mine was a doozy that could've been a disaster, but was saved by some good friends. @oldstermag.bsky.social #Prom #PromSeason #Baltimore

Hot off the presses, an Oldster Magazine link roundup for you. I was sad, last night, to have to add the passing of wonderful singer-songwriter Jill Sobule. RIP. 💔 oldster.substack.com/p/what-to-re...

I loved doing this Q&A! I got to reveal me to me!

Spoke again with @calliefreitag.bsky.social about what's happening to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. oldster.substack.com/p/a-first-10...

Since today is #IndieBookstoreDay I thought I'll salute one of my favorites back when I was a messenger in 1985. This photo was taken forty years before I started going there. Also, check out my @oldstermag.bsky.social essay on bookstores "Supper at Scribners" oldster.substack.com/p/supper-at-...

After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/word-games

"I just like myself more, more consistently. I like who I’ve become, and the person I built myself to be." - @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-al...

🚨New Oldster interview series, "Late Nite Radio" with Allyson McCabe (@smallbutfighty.bsky.social). First up: suzannevega.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/late-nite-...

Got an @oldstermag.bsky.social Friday Link Roundup for you... oldster.substack.com/p/what-to-re...

“My mother had lived a rich, full life. She had stories to tell, if only someone would ask.” - Another great installment of novelist @lauralippman.bsky.social's occasional Oldster Magazine column, “I Don’t Know Why…” oldster.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...

“I was a very young 26-year-old with few responsibilities or deep ties in life, when I came in...” - The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield takes the Sober Oldster Q&A, our monthly collaboration with The Small Bow, illustrated by Edith Zimmerman. oldster.substack.com/p/ask-a-sobe...

A Friday Open Thread about knowing when and how to move—ourselves and the elders in our lives—to senior housing. A collaboration with Claire Zulkey's Evil Witches newsletter... oldster.substack.com/p/when-its-t...

Early 1980s me in the LIU/BK radio station where I had a show, but was too shy to talk much. I used this pic, which was taken by my friend Paul Price, for my @oldstermag.bsky.social story "Supper at Scribner's: oldster.substack.com/p/supper-at-... --Goodbye Brooklyn: crimereads.com/goodbye-broo...

Regular readers of my own newsletter will recognize some of these themes, but I'm happy to have the space to explore them in another publication. Thanks @oldstermag.bsky.social!

‪How Dance Can Save Your Life: Do yourself a favor and read this lovely essay by @marthabayne.bsky.social in @oldstermag.bsky.social magazine about rediscovering in midlife a youthful dream you thought had died for good. oldster.substack.com/p/how-dance-...

“I feel neither younger nor older than 94, but 94 now feels younger than I’d expected.” - author Judith Viorst takes the Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-94...

Going through this with my dad whose dementia symptoms are advancing. I’m walking the line between educating and shaming him. It’s tricky. He knows something is wrong with him but I don’t want him giving up and thinking he can’t do anything. It’s agony. And I hate the whole world right now.

A Friday open thread on scams we've fallen for (in which I admit to a couple of doozies of my own). oldster.substack.com/p/whos-falle...

"I associate myself with the age of 21. That’s when I started doing standup and when I get onstage now, I still feel the thrill like I did back when I was 21.” - Comedy legend Carol Leifer takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-68...

Moving new essay by Mona Gable this morning... oldster.substack.com/p/going-to-t...

Happy Friday. I made you a beast of a link roundup... oldster.substack.com/p/a-link-rou...

TONY Award-winning playwright and lyricist Greg Kotis has a new play in the Fringe Festival, with four dates in April at The Wild Project. Here, he takes the Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-59...

"Life is so much simpler, in the best possible way. Nothing is perfect, but I can see things for what they are." Big thrill: today we've got "Care and Feeding" author @lauriewoolever.bsky.social's Sober Oldster Q&A, our monthly collaboration with The Small Bow. oldster.substack.com/p/ask-a-sobe...

A nice chat with A.J. Daulerio, editor of The Small Bow, a newsletter about recovery and mental health. Here's a clip. Check it out... oldster.substack.com/p/the-oldste...

"He tracked me down ten years after his Irish exit from the relationship… When we met, 48 to 31 was one irresistible thing; 68 to 51 is oh-so-humbling-ly another. I was older then. I’m an oldster now.” - novelist Stephanie Gangi in Oldster Magazine. oldster.substack.com/p/ten-years-...