Ashton Applewhite considers herself an Old Person in Training. At age 64 the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism says the measure of our aging should not be how much we're like our younger selves, but how much we've embraced the benefits of our years. Interviewed via Skype,
I AM NOT ADORABLE!
Adorable? Me? Since when do a couple of smooching seniors get that label? Apparently when young people quiver at the notion of seniors having sex. Carol Larson offers this commentary on the ageist idea that getting older makes us sex-less. In this presentation featured at the 2018