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[B]OLD AGE with Debbie Weil

In my best-selling newsletter, I share the bittersweetness of old age, from the blessings to the bullshit. I write about the strange contradiction of growing old: it’s wonderful… and it also sucks.

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A conversation with Peter Moore about cartooning, creativity, money, and what he finds funny

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Letters to Lucy #3: Mind-bending joy, plus sober for 57 days and counting

Career grief, drinking a lot less, and wanting to be stronger

Are you doing enough? (maybe you already are)

Find out in the replay of my conversation with Dr. Lucy McBride about her new book, Beyond the Prescription, and her realistic approach to healthy aging.

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🐣 💕 Snuggling instead of writing

This adorable 7th grandbaby is making me savor the moment, as well as sharpening my desire to live 20 more years

Fine, I want to live to 95...

The birth of an unexpected seventh grandchild has changed my perspective, plus coming up: Dr. Lucy McBride!

Radically honest highlights from [B]old Age

From eldering and living to 100, to identity and grief, to grandchildren, to fashion and online shopping, to what other [b]old women have to say on life and writing.

💬 Sending again ➡️ Scribble me a handwritten note!

Doesn't matter what you say; it's your effort to find the paper, the notecard, the address that makes it so special.

💬 [B]old Women: My mother couldn't say "I love you," but she saved everything... what now?

What should I do with my childhood treasures, stored for decades by my late mother, but never mentioned?

Letters to Lucy #2: A spike of happiness, a spiral of self-doubt

a raw summer essay from the coast of Maine

Hiring a sex worker made Gail Rice famous

A Q&A with a 72-year-old formerly living a quiet life in Australia

Boundaries saved my art: a LIVE conversation with bestselling author Emma Gannon

A special edition of the [B]old Women Book Club where we talk about creativity, solitude, limiting time on apps, and why Emma might choose Substack over books

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