Sep 14, 2020 | Changing The Narrative, Language and Ageism, Visual Ageism
Ageism is a problem so embedded into our culture that it can be hard to see. But ageist messages are everywhere, even in something as positive as birthday cards. After we reach a certain age, birthday cards that refer to age seem to be less about celebration than... Read more 
Sep 3, 2020 | Older Workers, Real Aging
Monica LaBiche Brown is a native of Seychelles, a group of African islands in the Indian Ocean. At a very young age, Monica’s family moved to Uganda for her father’s work. “When I was six months old, my father got a job in Uganda, and so our family moved,” Brown says.... Read more 
Aug 28, 2020 | Intergenerational conversations, Older Workers, Real Aging
Hartmut Spetzler came to the United States from Germany at 16 years old, knowing exactly one English phrase (a colorful phrase not to be repeated here). Now a retired geophysics professor, Hartmut is genial, funny, and understated. One wouldn’t immediately know all... Read more 
Aug 26, 2020 | Older Workers, Real Aging
Maurice Wade was born in Greenwood, Missouri in 1948. He grew up in Muskegon Heights, Michigan where at a young age, he bonded with family by watching old western films every weekend. It was through those shared times that his admiration for cowboys grew, and how his... Read more 
Aug 18, 2020 | Intergenerational conversations, Older Workers, Real Aging
Carolyn Love was born and raised in the heart of the Midwest: Gary, Indiana. A city rich in African American culture, it was a place to “love the skin you’re in” and support your neighbors as if they were family. “Gary was a town filled with people who were caring,... Read more 
Aug 6, 2020 | Older Workers, Real Aging
Life has a way of leading us to the paths we are destined for, even if these paths are different from the ones we started on. Sid Wilson, a Brooklyn, New York native, found himself at a crossroads when at 50, his company of 14 years started to downsize. He decided to... Read more 