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16 mn read Pamela Des Barres, 74, is a musician and actress known for being an American rock groupie. In fact, she wrote a famous memoir I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie which details her experiences in the Los Angeles rock music scene of the 60s and 70s. It turns out that she’s been running workshops […]
7 mn read Have you ever experienced the death of someone you love and realised that you have no idea what was to be done next? Or found out just how many decisions (and paperwork) needed to be taken care of – whilst reeling with grief and shock? I had these exact experiences and they moved me to […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
4 mn read What do you do? I am a published poet, fictionist, essayist, book reviewer, photographer, painter, carpenter, guitarist, and amateur social scientist. Tell us what it’s like to be your age? Being sixty-eight years old is not the same as anything I have ever experienced before. After falling from my cabin roof twelve years ago my […]
3 mn read ‘Epic Minds’is a 35 minute dance theatre circus production about psychosis and the idea of insanity. I have created and directed this piece to complete my MA in Directing Circus and Physical Theatre at Bristol Circomedia. I am a woman, 69 years of age, who is passionate about making engaging, thoughtful work that embraces dance, […]
