Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and their friend Leslie Ross-Degnan have a lively discussion of Anna Quindlen's Still Life with Bread Crumbs. More than just a good summer read, it is rife with Oldish themes and Romance. You can find this or other books by Anna Quindlen on Amazon , in your library, or wherever you buy books. (...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust debate the question, after the first 2024 Presidential Debate, are these two candidates Oldish, or really old. Have an opinion? Send us a text, or leave a comment at www.oldish.me Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan discuss Tehanu, the fourth book in the Earthsea Series by Ursula K. LeGuin. Why was she as influential in the genre of Fantasy as Tolkien? What do dragons have to do with Oldishness? Get Tehanu and othe books by Ursula K. LeGuin here. Support the show Oldish is now on substack!...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a special Father's Day conversation with Zanny Merullo Steffgen and Roland Merullo, a daughter-father team of writers who have launched a substack named Hi, Zan. Hi, Pa. Roland is the author of The Delight of Being Ordinary, which was the book we discussed in our most recent Oldish: Book Club. He listened to the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about what they find most surprising about Oldishness. What's not surprising is how grateful we are. Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust celebrate the second anniversary of Oldish. The first full episode was published on May 11, 2022, and since then we've published over 40 more! Who knew? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Ja...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan have a lively conversation about The Delight of Being Ordinary,  Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama. It's a richly imagined tale of an unlikely adventure, and tells us lots about what it means to be alive, and especially what it means to be Oldish....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined again by Leslie Ross-Degnan. We discuss The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley. This road trip book, inspired in part by the movie Thelma and Louise, is an interesting take on the oldish and the youngish coming of age together on an epic adventure. You can purchase T...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with noted author, speaker, and advocate for ageless sexuality Joan Price. How did her life and career change as she navigated her own journey through oldishness? How did menopause affect her attitudes toward sexuality and desire? How did she undertake her mission to help people understand and enjoy their own sexu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the podcast Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively riff on a quotation from The Hunger Games - "May the odds always be in your favor".  What does that saying, in the context of The Hunger Games hard look at a dystopian future, mean for we who are Oldish? Are we already in a dystopian...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust chat about Forgiveness. There are no sorries in real life, or in pickleball.  What do you think? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new:...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined by frequent guest Leslie Ross-Degnan for Oldish Book Club. We discuss poet and novelist May Sarton's memoir/journal At Seventy. She was quintessentially Oldish. Her writing is sweet and powerful. Do you know her work? Please join the conversation by leaving a comment below. Support the show Oldish is now on...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a conversation about Martin Luther King Day, and how their lives as Oldish People are different, or not so much, as a result of the work and life of Rev. Martin Luther King.  Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively conversation about how letting doubts and fears get in your head can interfere with your pickleball game, and real life. Fell like you're in a fog? What are some strategies to get yourself in a better place to play? Try a little kindness, toward yourself and all the players! Support the show Oldish is no...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a positive discussion of negative self talk, on the pickleball court and in real life. Stimulated by a podcast by CJ Johnson and Tony Roig, we ask "whose voice is that, anyway". CJ Johnson and Tony Roig are BetterPickeball.com . Their podcast is Picklebal...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down for a lively conversation with Patrick Smith and Melinda Alcosser to discuss their book Pickleball!: The Curious History of Pickleball, and many other things, from Dr. Martin Luther King to Qigong, to percussion, to martial arts... Pickleball!:The Curious History of Pickleball https://amzn.to/40yK7EG Qijong Pickle...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish:Conversations on Oldish in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk with our book club friend Leslie Ross-Degnan about the book Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery. It's the true story of Emma Gatewood, who at the age of 67 became the first woman to thru hike the Appalachian Trail. Shewas the epitome of Oldishness....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day. What have we learned about the history, our understandings and beliefs, our education, and how can we go forward? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of our continuing series The Dinking Game, linking pickleball and real life, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a wide ranging conversation about how important it is to communicate clearly with your partner while playing pickleball and in the rest of your life, too. Gregg is very happy with his new Tyrol Pickleball shoes. Tyrol is the only company that...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode in the Oldish series The Dinking Game, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively conversation about the Transition Zone in Pickleball, that area, sometimes called No Man's Land, between the back line and the non-volley zone (aka The Kitchen), and relate it to real life, and to Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön's Groundlessness. Get into your rea...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan to talk about The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sunberg. It's the first in the League of Pensioners series. It's a rollicking heist novel about a group of Oldish Pensioners who break out of the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Oldish, Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust discuss Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech on the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington. What did it mean to us then, and what does it mean to us, and our country, now? Has the dream come true? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with...

Send us Fan Mail This week, on Independence Day in the USA, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust share their experiences of July 4, and wonder what it might be like 50 years from now. Take a break between bites and explosions, and give a listen. Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg...

Send us Fan Mail In this Dinking Game Episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the ancient concept of wu Wei, which Alan Watts translated as Not Forcing. How does this apply to pickleball, especially the dinking game, and real life? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gre...

Send us Fan Mail In this Shortish episode Dr. Janet and Gregg talk about what Fathers Day means to them. How about you? Support the show Oldish is now on substack! Check us out at  https://oldishpodcast.substack.com Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and...