Essay Elderhood
This is what happens when someone brings out an old photograph. Everyone leans in. For a few seconds, the room becomes very interested in the past. Someone recognizes the curtains. Someone else insists the car belonged to an uncle, although that uncle apparently never...Essay Elderhood
There is a compliment we sometimes give older people. “She’s amazing for her age.” We mean it kindly. Someone is still active, funny, sharp at lunch, and refusing to become a beige little footnote in sensible shoes. Lovely. Truly. I am all for elderhood with lipstick,...Essay Elderhood
You can tell a great deal about a place by the speed it expects from people. There is the café where the queue tightens behind an older man counting coins with careful fingers. Someone shifts their weight. Someone sighs through their nose. The person at the till...