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The Death of Nadja – my Wife
5 mn read Nadja was my second wife, and I her second husband. We were very happy together for 30 years when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in India.
Journeys
8 mn read
A Crazy Trip to Finland – my brother and I plus my dogs
8 mn read Book travel, sort dogs, pack a bag, grab passport. My usual approach to travel. Not for this trip. The decision to drive to Finland UK in the middle of a global pandemic for Christmas 2021 was a result of a drunken zoom between me, my brother Mik and our friends, Ed and Vee who live […]
7 mn read
Beyond The Funeral Director – DIY style
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
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 […]
5 mn read
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 […]
5 mn read
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 […]
8 mn read
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
11 mn read
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 […]
3 mn read
Seizing The Latter Part of Life to Be Creative
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, […]
4 mn read
Age is no Barrier to Getting your Book Published
4 mn read Judy Piatkus, 71, is an entrepreneur, publisher and business coach specialising in conscious leadership. She founded Piatkus Books when she was in her 20s…
