Such an honor to work with @SariBotton and contribute this piece to Memoir Land!! (For the record, I handed it in way before the New York Magazine issue on the topic came out.) Check it!

'If you could cobble together an outfit that looked expensive enough to tip decently, beat your face to shit, and walked with attitude, you could easily gain entrée into any room you wanted, and I did.' - Vivian Manning-Schaffel in Memoir Land
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Fifty years ago today my fourth-grade class celebrated Earth Day by singing a parody called 'Imagine there's no litter...' at a school assembly.

“When my daughter asked about shaving, I wanted to make sure she knew she had a choice; she was not obligated to remove hair from any part of her body.” - 🚨 First installment of a new, occasional Oldster Magazine column by bestselling author @Laura Lippman.

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You don't have to be from Kingston NY to be in O+ Festival, just able to be there, weekend of OCTOBER 11-13, 2024! Please submit a pitch to WO+RD (shortish spoken word story/poems/etc)! Free healthcare is available if you get in. Cheap fillings, too! opositivefestival.org/kingston/

Spoke with Inbox Collective about my favorite newsletters. (I was supposed to mention only one, and I pushed it to four. Could have mentioned several others — there are so many good ones right now.) inboxcollective.com/one-newsletter…

Will you meet Susan Kiyo Ito & Sari Botton at @oblongbooks?

Register here: buff.ly/3Jb4Tm1 for Wednesday's event!

'In my old age I've come to realize everybody on the planet is recovering from something + deserves our compassion. It’s pretty much the human condition. All our secrets are the same.' - Jerry Stall's Sober Oldster Q&A, Oldster Magazine's collab w/ thesmallbow
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OMG, this is what Nuvance Health did to us, charging us for walk-in Covid tests back when they were supposed to be free. I'd like back all the time I had to spend fighting them! dailyfreeman.com/2024/04/12/att…

'I was recently reminded of my status as the Hester Prynne of south shore Long Island when I found myself in a social situation with a group of women I hadn’t seen in many years.'
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'One gift of getting older as a trans person is that you get the benefit of the work that younger people are doing to expand notions of gender and the body.' - Griffin Hansbury (also published as Jeremiah Moss) in Oldster Magazine.
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(Obviously I regret this EVERY SINGLE DAY. 🫤)

After losing our loft in 2005, there was no going back to tiny, shitty, over-priced walk-ups, and so we moved upstate. Yup, this tracks. curbed.com/article/brookl…

1. More important than what Trump said yesterday about abortion is what he did not say and the questions he is refusing to answer

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PATH OF TOTALITY is my new band name.

Three years later, I've earned out my advance on the revised edition of Goodbye to All That. Grateful to all my contributors, and to everyone who's bought the updated version. 🙏
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Acquaintance who is a graphic designer: “Oldster Magazine has brought back Bauhaus 93.”

What I'm saying is I earthquaked before it was cool. 💅