Joe Lambert

Joe Lambert

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Once I was an activist in the areas of labor, housing, civil rights, and education. Then I ran a theater and engaged in national and international discussions of cultural democracy. Then, I evolved a method of practice, digital storytelling.
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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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22
Sep
Aging in the Era of Techno-Authoritarianism

Aging in the Era of Techno-Authoritarianism

When I look around at this moment, sinking into the context many of us find ourselves in, we are clearly
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15
Sep
ElderWare:

ElderWare:

Story Work and Aging in the Mid-21st Century I have always related to the stories I’m living. As a
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