A Mini-Travelogue from Nadia – a road trip in France and Spain
Posted in Advantages of Age7 mn read Mountain life The northern French Alps in September is one of my favourite places anywhere. Ten years ago, we were able to buy a little old chalet in a village on the route de La Plagne and I didn’t imagine just how much I would come to adore autumn here in themountains. The sun is still […]
Portals to Other Worlds
Posted in Advantages of Age8 mn read Michael Ward is 70. He lives in a cottage in Dorset. This is his story. I was born in Ireland in 1952. We were a nice middle-class family: two parents, two children, living in a pleasant cul de sac named Ardmore Drive, on the outskirts of Belfast. On the surface, everything seemed fine. As the […]
I Love my Wrinkles
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read No, I don’t actually love my wrinkles. At least, not yet. Which is why I am writing this piece, for anyone who has an ambivalent relationship with their own wrinkles. They are part of a body that is aging. Perhaps that’s why I’m not so keen – it’s evidence right before my eyes that actually, […]
A Lament for Sinead
Posted in Advantages of Age7 mn read So many wild waves of emotion crash around in the wake of Sinéad O’Connor’s death. Me too. I feel a lot. I’ve loved and resonated with all she has offered from the very first album. I mean, her voice, and the way she would give herself fully to delivering those songs to us, no matter […]
I’m Okay With Being Called Old – finding ways to re-imagine that word.
Posted in Advantages of Age4 mn read Not long ago, I was discussing my 70th birthday celebrations with a male friend and I declared that I was old as part of the conversation. I didn’t mean it in that British understating-slightly-funny-because-I’m-embarrassed way, I meant it in a quietly proud way. He didn’t get it. He thought I was being self-effacing. No, you’re […]
Falling in Love With My Own Characters – my first book at 63!
Posted in Advantages of Age9 mn read A few years ago, I started writing books. I write under the name, Annie Cook. I’ve written six (soon to be seven) in a series of connected novels centred around a ‘magic’ holiday cottage in the Lake District. Discombobulated people are unwittingly drawn there to heal from life traumas. The books centre loosely around vibrational […]
A Mini-Travelogue from Nadia – a road trip in France and Spain
Posted in Advantages of Age7 mn read Mountain life The northern French Alps in September is one of my favourite places anywhere. Ten years ago, we were able to buy a little old chalet in a village on the route de La Plagne and I didn’t imagine just how much I would come to adore autumn here in themountains. The sun is still […]
Return of the Wise Woman
Posted in Age is No Barrier3 mn read I’m coming up to 68, in a passionate, new relationship, developing several big business ideas, travelling around the world, moving home but not sure where or even which country.
A Paean to Raving at 53
Posted in Age is No Barrier5 mn read I’m one of the world’s oldest ravers and I’m still raving. I consider it a radical act of defiance against the fear machine that promotes hard work until retirement, after which you’re expected to tip-toe quietly towards death
I spent a lifetime trying to be someone else – now I’m free to be me
Posted in Age is No Barrier3 mn read Freedom… that sweet word which, for me, encompasses everything that sums up what it feels like to be of a ‘certain age’.
Swimming Lessons
Posted in Age is No Barrier6 mn read Dorothy knew that I wasn’t a strong swimmer, but what she didn’t know was that I really couldn’t swim at all…
Sex in My 70s – at last, the pressure is off!
Posted in Age is No Barrier4 mn read Much of my life, despite discovering meditation in my 30s, has been about achieving goals – either physical ones in different sporting activities or intellectual ones in my medical career.
A Feminist Arrives in Nakedland
Posted in Age is No Barrier4 mn read I casually mentioned to people that I was going to Cap d’Agde this September. Most of my friends didn’t know where that was or what it was…
