Dancing with the Muse in Old Age: A Profile of Priscilla Long

by Alice Lowe

At 79, she proudly claims and defends the word “old.” Further, there are no such things as “senior moments”; we all, at any age, forget where we left our keys or glasses now and then. Continue reading →

An Artist Artist: Nell Irvin Painter on Old in Art School

by Lisa Peet

I was used to juggling my self-perception and other people’s views of me as a black person and as a woman, from within and without. But now what I took as me seemed almost inconsequential as my essence shriveled to my age. This was something new. Continue reading →