Tag: ageismville

• the ageismville diaries – chapter four (🤬)

  the age/looks barometer We have this ageism-flavored drink in our systems y’all.  We are doing a lot of the work on ourselves, lessening the load of those who want and endeavor for us to feel less than as we age.  Question: What is 45 (or any other age) supposed to feel like? Consider this piece…

  y.l.d.

  April 19, 2022

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• the ageismville diaries – chapter two

  reading Today was a doozy. I was shedding things, making room, as spring will have you do, when I came across the Summer 2021 issue of Millie, a magazine that started showing up with my subscription to Real Simple, out of the blue. Immediately I saw why I’d kept it around this long: it had…

  y.l.d.

  April 3, 2022

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• the ageismville diaries – chapter one

  entry I didn’t get the job. Every sign on the month-long, four-interview road to that Copy Editor position said that the job was in the bag. It was mine. I’d never walked away from an interview feeling more confident than I had after that last one. By then, the process had gone from the initial…

  y.l.d.

  March 27, 2022

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