Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century
Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk amongst themselves and with special guests about many facets of aging and how it feels to be Oldish in the 21st Century. Conversation, stories, facts, information, opinions, experiences.
Oldish: Juneteenth 2025
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In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and guest host ChatGPT discuss Juneteenth, the Federal Holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when word of the Emancipation of American slaves finally reached Galveston, Texas. What has it meant to our country over these long years, and what does it mean now?Â
Next up, the 4th of July. Coming soon, Oldish Book Club reading of Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf.
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Oldish: Crappy Days
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about those days when, despite being Oldish, we sometimes just feel crappy. We feel better having talked about it, and hope you will, too.
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Oldish: 3 Years!
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust celebrate the third anniversary of the podcast Oldish, and tak about plans for the future. If you like Oldish, you'll like this one.
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Oldish Book Club: Judith Viorst Decades Poems
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our Oldish Book Club partner Leslie Ross-Degnan celebrate, somewhat tardily, National Poetry Month, by sharing some poems from Judith Viorst's Decades book series. We read, and discuss, and lauh a lot. Please join us.
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Oldish: Liz Kitchens Lose the Beige!
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a wide-ranging conversation with Liz Kitchens, author of Be Brave, Lose the Beige, Finding Your Sass After 60! Isn't it about time to be true to your more colorful self?
You can find Liz Kitchens' book at www.bebravelosethebeige.com
at your local bookstore, or at the Oldish Book Store on Bookshop.org. If you buy this or any of our favorite books from Bookshop, Oldish may get a small...
Oldish:Book Club The Oldish Man and the Sea
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have another energetic book club meeting with our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan. We read and discuss Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, which we all read in high school. How does it look from way out in the Gulf Stream of Time? Way more interesting than it did back then.
We all also watched the Academy Award winning short Animated Film depiction of the Old Man and the Sea. It's gorgeous...
Oldish: Sex After Grief with Joan Price
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down again with renowned expert on aging sexuality Joan Price. Our conversation with Joan last year, Oldish Sexuality, is our most popular ever. She has just released an updated version of her book Sex After Grief, Navigating Your Sexuality after Losing Your Beloved.
If you or someone you know is grieving the loss of a partner or spouse, or is dating someone who is, or is related to someone who is...
Oldish: St. Paddy's Day
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with a metaphorical pint and have a lively bant about the Patron Saint of Immigrants. Perhaps you are the descendents of immigrants, or know someone who is...
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Oldish: The Rainforest Mind
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have an engaging conversation with Paula Prober, a psychotherapist and expert in what she calls The Rainforest Mind, what we used to call "gifted". Do you have a rainforest mind? Are you highly sensitive, smart, complex, creative, intense, curious, lonely, and misunderstood? Or know someone who is? If so, listen to this.
Paula Prober is a psychotherapist, consultant, blogger, and author in private practice based in Eugene, Oregon, USA. For the past 35+ ye...
Oldish: Coping
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the anxiety and stress they and others are feeling in these trying times, and various ways to cope. Helping someone is a good idea!
We mention a Ukrainian non-profit that is providing services to civilians, especially children, who have been affected by the war. Here's the link if you would like a non-military way to help
.https://rescuenow.ngo/
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Oldish Book Club: All the Lonely People
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In this episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan have a lively chat about All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle. It's a sweet story about an old man who is drawn back into Oldishness by love and kindness. The audiobook version, read by Ben Onwukwe is really well done.Â
You can learn more about Mike Gayle atÂ
https://www.mikegayle.co.uk/
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Oldish: Traveling While Oldish
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In this episode of Oldish:Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about how traveling at our age is different, especially, ahem, traveling with a honey.
Next week we'll have another meeting of the Oldish Book Club with our friend Lesley Ross-Degnan. This time we're reading and discussing All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle. It's a sweet story of a man in his 80's becoming Oldish.
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Oldish: Oldish on Everest, Redux
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This is a newly re-edited version of one of our first episodes from almost three years ago. It has been one of our most popular episodes, and we've given it a fresh new sound. Co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sat down with dear friend Chris Balch to talk about our trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp with Everest to End Duchenne to raise awareness and funds for research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. We are stll hoping for a cure. We hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Oldish: MLK Day and the Inauguration
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In this episode of the podcast Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk themselves into feeling hopeful, maybe, thanks to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Michelle Obama. Thanks!
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Oldish: 2024--->2025
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In this year-end/year-beginning episode of Oldish:Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the interesting year that 2024 was for Oldish and the world, and take a look ahead to what promises to be an equally strange 2025.
Tune in (if you know what that means, you're Oldish) next week for a surprise episode.
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Oldish: Boomers Booming With an Asterisk
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on aging in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have so much fun talking with Frances Reaves, elder law attorney and author of Boomers Booming: How to Thrive After 65* (*and have great sex!) we didn't want to stop, so she'll be back. We learned a lot, and laughed a lot. You will, too.
Frances Reaves' elder law practice website is https://parentyourparents.com/. There is a link to her invaluable book there.
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Oldish Book Club: It's Not All Downhill From Here
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In this new episode in the popular series Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan have a joyously deep discussion about It's Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan. It's a wonderful novel about a woman approaching 70 that is so replete with Oldish themes it might almost be a handbook of Oldishness.
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Oldish: No Time for Pickleball Injuries!
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century Co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with well-regarded pickleball coach Amy Gilmore to discuss her new book Avoid Pickleball Injuries, Have Fun, Stay Active, and Make Friends. All good things, right?
Amy's book can be found on Amazon HERE. (note, if you purchase this book after clicking on this link Oldish may receive a small commission. Go ahead, you know you want to).
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Oldish: From WTF? to Contentment, Even Joy- The Presidential Election
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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a challenging discussion about the recent US Presidential election, and working through the stages of grief to try to find ways to contentment, and maybe even joy. This is how it is for Oldish people.
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Oldish Book Club: Walking Each Other Home
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In this episode of the Oldish Book Club, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price, Gregg Kaloust, and our dear friend Leslie Ross-Degnan talk about Walking Each Other Home,Conversations on Loving and Dying, by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush. The authors are well-known teachers, activists, and writers. Their conversations took place as Ram Dass was dying, and form an essential guide to the arts of loving deeply, and dying into love.
The cover art for this episode is a bench in a local cemetery, where my friend and I often sit during our m...
Oldish: Episode 50! Not Grumpy!
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In this episode Oldish co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust start out grumpy, but lighten up when they realize this is the 50th Episode of Oldish!
Our next episode will be another meeting of our Oldish Book Club, which many of you have told us are your favorite episodes. This time we’ll be talking about Walking Each Other Home, by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, two well-known spiritual teachers and old friends who got together just before the death of Ram Dass to talk about life, spirit, love, and dy...
Oldish: Showing Up
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In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust discuss the benefits of showing up. You already won!
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Oldish: Open to Love
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In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a spirited discussion with Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers about meeting online and falling in love in their Oldish Eighties, and their new book Open to Love: Secrets of Senior Dating. If you are Oldish, and open to love, this is a great book to get started with.
You can buy a copy of Open to Love on Amazon.
Dr. Horsley's foundation is Open to Hope.
The Doctors' website is Golden Dating Doctors.
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Oldish: After the Debate - They ARE old!
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In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust follow up on our recent episode published after the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. We wondered in that episode whether they were old or Oldish, and concluded that they must be Oldish. Imagine our surprise when it became obvious Joe Biden must have listened and concluded he is old, after all. In this episode we take full credit for Joe Biden deciding to pull out of the race. We plan to send a link to that episode to the Trump campaign...
Oldish Book Club:Still Life with Breadcrumbs
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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. (if you buy this or other books on Amazon we may get a small commission, which helps to offset the costs of bringing you...
Oldish: The Debate - Are these guys Oldish?
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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
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Oldish Book Club: Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
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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?
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Oldish: Hi, Zan. Hi, Pa
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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 episode, and now here we are.
Hi, Zan. Hi, Pa is at https://www.merullo.substack.com. It's always a stimulating read.
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Oldish: Surprising
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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.
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Oldish: 2nd Anniversary
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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?
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Oldish Book Club: The Delight of Being Ordinary
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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.
You can purchase this or other books by Roland Merullo, and other books we've discussed in the Oldish Book Club, on Amazon by c...
Oldish: Book Club - Tanner and Louise
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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 The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise and other books by Colleen Oakley on Amazon and othe booksellers.
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Oldish Sexuality with Joan Price
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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 sexuality as they age? How has her view of these things changed over the last 20 years?
If any of these topics will upset or offend you, please do not...
Oldish: Hunger Games
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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".Â
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 future, in ourselves, our bodies, and our society? What, if anything, can we do about it? Is despair the only response?
Oldish: No Sorries, In Life or Pickleball
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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?
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Oldish: Book Club May Sarton At 70
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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.
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Oldish: Martin Luther King Day
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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.Â
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Oldish: Pickleball Headgame
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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!
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Oldish: Negative Self Talk
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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 Pickleball Therapy.
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Oldish: The Curious History of Pickleball
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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
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Qijong Pickleball
https://youtu.be/adnJhFtdRc0?feature=shared
Kingian Nonviolence
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Melinda’s Pickleball trips
Carpe Dink'em Pickleball
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