The Bull Looks Different
Stepping into the arena of older age requires determination and an admirable capacity for resilience. In my journey toward becoming a...
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Ageful Living
Feb 63 min read
Reflections on "Sephora Kids"
Their obsession with maintaining beauty involves the search for ways to postpone aging. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest...
Dec 19, 20227 min read
A Season of Surprise
How do we explain when memories of certain delightful gifts, years later, return to us as unexpected treasures? Dear Santa: Please bring...
Sep 15, 20224 min read
From the Catcall to the Catacomb
You’d think there were only two inevitable experiences for women over the course of their adult lives. I can’t recall when I first saw...
Jul 19, 20214 min read
Who Cares About Caregiving? Part 2
As time passes, caregivers will need greater recognition, acceptance, and support from all parts of our society. In Part 1, I presented...
Jul 6, 20214 min read
Who Cares About Caregiving? Part 1
It's not a disease or disability. It's the future of health care. On November 26, 2002, The Charlotte Observer published the following...
Jan 23, 20214 min read
An Iconic Solution
Instead of creating a new “warning” symbol depicting older adults, why have one at all? Four months ago, the Centre for Ageing Better in...
Jul 8, 20194 min read
Building Toward Age Equity: Three "Inter"-Changing Models
Strategies that are interdependent, intergenerational, and intersectional can help abolish ageism. After decades of struggle, pro-aging...
Nov 12, 20184 min read
What’s Fueling the Anti-Ageism Movement?
Dedicated grassroots activists and innovative organizational campaigns are fighting to end age discrimination. In 2011, it was Occupy...
Oct 8, 20153 min read
A Thought Experiment on Aging
For many elders, meeting the expectation to be middle-aged is undesirable and insulting. We who are old know that age is more than...
Mar 19, 20153 min read
Let’s Be Gero-Guerrillas for Change
We should adopt a militant approach toward abolishing ageism and its three insidious forms: discrimination, neglect, and abuse. Recently...
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