Dispatches from the Longevity Innovations in Higher Education Summit I'm sitting in the Lifelong Learning Auditorium at Mirabella

Veterans, Aging, and the Wars We Keep Fighting As I write this, the United States and Israel have launched what

Enshittification, Elders, and the Social Media We Deserve There is a word I keep coming back to. It is not

I keep seeing them when I close my eyes—the elders in sunhats and sensible shoes, flood of silver hair

Last Wednesday, also known as Christmas Eve, I was part of the Commons annual Tamalada, or community holiday tamale making

Companion Living as an Emerging Social Technology of Aging I’ve been thinking lately about a space that doesn’t

“Intellectual intimacy is the space where two minds meet—where curiosity sparks, ideas deepen, and understanding grows beyond the surface.

Mel Brooks used to crack that the secret to longevity is simple: “Keep breathing.” Then he’d take a beat,

“Why not talk about it when we’re in the flower of health? Life is finite, isn’t it? So,

Down the river from me is the Mary Esther Gonzales Senior Center on Alto Street (aka MEG). I’ve walked