Elderware: Story Work and Aging in the Mid-21st Century
Elderware: Story Work and Aging in the Mid-21st Century is a multi-layered media project (podcast, digital stories, blog posts, book) into way technologies shape the lives of older adults.

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01
Dec
Die Wise, Tell True: Where the Stories We Carry Shape Our Endings

Die Wise, Tell True: Where the Stories We Carry Shape Our Endings

“Why not talk about it when we’re in the flower of health? Life is finite, isn’t it? So,
4 min read
24
Nov
Senior Centers and the Art of Aging Together

Senior Centers and the Art of Aging Together

Down the river from me is the Mary Esther Gonzales Senior Center on Alto Street (aka MEG). I’ve walked
7 min read
17
Nov
The Age Pass: On Malaise, Mercy, and Making Peace with Help

The Age Pass: On Malaise, Mercy, and Making Peace with Help

There was this moment, when Brooke and I were standing in the boarding line at the Belém airport on Thursday,
8 min read
10
Nov
Boarding Pass for the Third Act: Travel as Praxis, Aging as Adventure

Boarding Pass for the Third Act: Travel as Praxis, Aging as Adventure

I write from Sao Paulo, Brazil.  I find myself at the end of a two year odyssey to generate what
7 min read
03
Nov
The Average Joe’s Almanac of Aging Well: Gadgets, Apps, and Good Sense

The Average Joe’s Almanac of Aging Well: Gadgets, Apps, and Good Sense

“Age tech needs to be reliable, easy to use, accurate and affordable”     – Empowering Independence With Technology..., AARP Here’s another
7 min read
27
Oct
Nickel-and-Dimed Time: How Class Writes Our Last Chapters

Nickel-and-Dimed Time: How Class Writes Our Last Chapters

“Old age can be understood only in the context of social conditions and issues of the larger social order.”     — Dr.
7 min read
20
Oct
Finding Home in Each Other: Housing, Aging, and the Work of Belonging

Finding Home in Each Other: Housing, Aging, and the Work of Belonging

“We know from research that smoking shortens your life and that abuse of alcohol is also bad. But what most
8 min read
13
Oct
I Left My Tooth in Algodones

I Left My Tooth in Algodones

So there was this article back at the end of July in the New Yorker.  Headline read: Mexico’s Molar
6 min read
06
Oct
Three Books, A Thousand Lives: What Today’s Aging Culture Is Teaching Us About the Next Twenty Five Years

Three Books, A Thousand Lives: What Today’s Aging Culture Is Teaching Us About the Next Twenty Five Years

I walked into Iconick, one of my neighborhood cafés here in Santa Fe last week and watched two scenes unfold
6 min read
29
Sep
Who Will I Become?

Who Will I Become?

Confessions of An Aging Digital Storyteller I began this inquiry in August with a detective’s hunch and a teacher’
10 min read