Reflections on facing into my 70th year
8 mn read Age is just a number goes the stereotypical gush around getting older. Or 70 is the new 40. But age isn’t just a number, getting older is significant and 70 is a seminal life stage. I believe it’s important to re-define the parameters around what we can do at what age. Of course. If we […]
The Fear of Friendship: male bonding in an age of patriarchy
7 mn read Male friendship can be a potentially very risky thing. Here Peter Marriott reflects on male friendships and how patriarchy impacts upon it.
Borrowed Light – Joining My Daughter’s Hen Weekend
5 mn read Earlier this year, in May 2022 – after a long winter of shielding and healing where I occupied an increasingly shrinking, but very safe-feeling world – I emerged, tentatively, into the sun. This process was facilitated in no small part by a group of bright, young women – my daughter’s closest and dearest friends, who […]
SeniorIT – Thriving for the future with Information Technology/Robots/Artificial Intelligence
5 mn read At age, 10. I made Christmas Crackers on my parent’s kitchen table for pocket money, and later TV Tuners, because you got more money. My fingers still bear the scars of pulling copper wires and soldering. I was not as bright as I thought though, as I could have got more money for the copper […]
The Ages Project is not about age – and it is all about age.
8 mn read I’m a 56 year old parent of two near adult sons. I’ve had operations on many of my joints, I have been diagnosed as well having ADHD and bipolar; I work in the civil service and I make photo art/protest projects when I am not working
Travels by my Wild Lone Self
11 mn read This is what I call them. These trips, when I go away in my car alone and I do this thing where I choose to ‘go where I will’. No fixed plan. My plans form in a kind of organic way. Some of them have notions beforehand that develop into options, then only sometimes into […]
Reflections on facing into my 70th year
8 mn read Age is just a number goes the stereotypical gush around getting older. Or 70 is the new 40. But age isn’t just a number, getting older is significant and 70 is a seminal life stage. I believe it’s important to re-define the parameters around what we can do at what age. Of course. If we […]
Return of the Wise Woman
3 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
5 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
3 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
6 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!
4 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
4 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…
