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Aging Joy Podcast TTT Rachel McAlpine Season 5

Season 5 Episode 8: Rachel McAlpine A Poet’s Voice on Aging

What is your job? What is your job when you no longer have a job? What is your work when you don’t go to work any more? When you retire you gain such a lot—like freedom and time and multiple choice. You left with relief so why this incongruity of grief? Work gave you friends, […]

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Adventures Aging Books Frances Podcast TTT Sarah Ahmadi Season 4

Season 4 Episode 27: The Trio on Living the Age We Are, Right Now

Welcome to Tea, Toast and Trivia. Thank you for listening in. I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I look forward to sharing this moment with you. Today, I am joined by my mother, Frances and my sister, Sarah for a discussion on the question: What does it feel like to be the age that […]

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Aging Frances Podcast TTT Season 2

Season 2 Episode 38: Frances on the Art of Aging

Welcome to Tea, Toast and Trivia.   Thank you for listening in.  A few weeks ago, my mother,  Frances, and I were discussing the aging process, something that we all have in common.  I think of the quote by Andy Rooney: “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but […]

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Aging Frances Madeleine L'Engle Podcast TTT

Episode 26: The Art of Aging

Welcome to Tea, Toast and Trivia. Thank you for listening in. I am joined by my mother Frances for a conversation about the aging process. I have never really understood the phrase: you are as young as you feel.  Birthdays come and go, and I feel the same. It’s only when I look back at […]