Replay: Sari Botton shares Five Things She's Learned about What Aging Means to Oldsters
Check out the replay of the first five minutes of her recent two-hour class.
"As I got into my 50s, and started to feel the effects of aging, and experienced gendered ageism on the job front. It made me even more fixated on what aging means, in various ways, and curious about other people’s experiences of getting older. And it made me want to destigmatize and normalize the aging experience by demonstrating that it’s happening to everyone, of all genders and ages, all the time. So I launched Oldster Magazine, where I’m fostering an intergenerational conversation about aging."
– Sari Botton, Five Things I’ve Learned about What Aging Means to Oldsters
If you subscribe to
‘s Oldster Magazine, you very likely have an image of Sari in your mind: kind, thoughtful, wise, funny. Sari’s long been someone we admire, and we can verify she’s all these things – and more!If you missed her recent live, two-hour class, Five Things I’ve Learned about What Aging Means to Oldsters, you can now view the first five minutes of this session and see for yourself.
On Wednesday night, Sari shared all she's learned since launching Oldster Magazine, which she created to showcase readers’ personal perceptions of their aging process. During her Five Things I’ve Learned session, Sari shared many of the most important things she's learned about aging from subscribers. She also shared specific questions from The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire that encourage consideration of the unique challenges and opportunities that come with getting older.
If you missed the class, we hope you’ll check out the Replay. And, if you’re not already, we hope that subscribe to Oldster and to Sari’s other Substack publications,
andSari is also the author of the memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She teaches creative nonfiction at Catapult, Bay Path University and Kingston Writers’ Studio. Recently she was also the Writer-in-Residence in the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz.
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