 By Elizabeth Russell | Bio Read Part I of this series.
As
soon as I got over thinking of myself as an oddity in the environment
and began looking around, I discovered some very interesting people. One
of the early people I met had been a detective (a Private I!) for over
35 years and had some hair-raising stories to tell, including her
gathering evidence against an East Bay union boss who was using sexual
coercion against women seeking work. [ Read More]
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By Elizabeth Russell
Bio
View the first post in this two-part series.
The conversation about age begins when we are born and continues
throughout life. It may be written or spoken. It may come from our
mothers (who heard it from their mothers) or it may come from people
who have studied other people in order to make profound pronouncements.
Whatever the source, it is all conversation. And labels are one element
of the conversation—labels we give to everything, labels that carry
weight and are endowed, over the years, with meaning such as young,
old, immature, stodgy, etc.[ Read More]
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By Elizabeth RussellBio
We think of aging as something that happens to us, something as
inevitable as waking up in the morning. But what if our way of speaking
about aging actually influences our experience of it?
Satchel Paige once asked, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how
old you was?” Because he was black, he wasn’t allowed to play major
league baseball until he was well past retirement age for ball players.
When he finally got his chance, no one knew for sure how old he was and
he wasn’t telling. Who he was and the performance he gave on the field
were more important than how old he was. [ Read More]
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By Elizabeth RussellBio
Interesting being asked for my comments on aging by Jim at a time
when I am engaged in thinking about it myself. A year ago, I moved into
a Seniors Retirement Center and I have been wondering about the wisdom
of that choice ever since. It has seemed to me that the people living
here are primarily finding ways to “spend” time while waiting for that
big event. My response has been to find things to do in San Francisco
and take myself out of here for at least one day each week.[ Read More]
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