# certain age (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [Tolerance Without Limit is Self-Abandonment](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/tolerance-without-limit-is-self-abandonment)

_2026-08-14 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

What Tracee Ellis Ross, a TED Talk, menopause and a lifetime of good-girl conditioning can teach women about boundaries, people pleasing and finally saying enough.

## [Forced Youth Is Not Beauty. It’s Despair.](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/forced-youth-is-not-beauty-its-despair)

_2026-07-25 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

When aging becomes something women are expected to correct, beauty starts becoming obedience.

## [The Lie of Easy](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/the-lie-of-easy)

_2026-07-20 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

The Life You Want is on the Other Side of Hard

## [Reset](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/reset)

_2026-07-19 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

A milestone and a report from camp

## [Sometimes It's Not About the Music](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/sometimes-its-not-about-the-music)

_2026-06-22 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

On being a woman musician of a certain age, in this age

## [5 Reasons You'll Age Well. Or Not.](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/5-reasons-youll-age-well-or-not)

_2026-06-22 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

Aging is Inevitable; How You Age is Negotiable

## [How The Recording Session Went](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/the-most-expensive-piano-lesson-i)

_2026-06-06 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

A Reckoning and a Plan

## [Acrobats, Bull and Butterfly, Buster Keaton Approaches the Castle](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/acrobats-bull-and-butterfly-buster)

_2026-06-02 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

Sometimes you wonder if they were listening to the same music

## [Wasp, Circus, Masquerade](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/wasp-circus-masquerade)

_2026-06-02 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

Found poetry from Elizabethtown

## [Livestream world premiere piano concert 5/29 link is still up](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/livestream-world-premiere-piano-concert)

_2026-05-29 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

Etudes & Idylls by the astonishing Agnes Tyrrell

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## [Play Music By Women](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/play-music-by-women)

_2026-05-28 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

and why I'm wary of the woman composer label

## [Stop Obeying "The Rules"](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/stop-obeying-the-rules)

_2026-05-27 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

A Manifesto of Sorts to the Sisters of a "Certain Age"

## [The Regret Loop](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/the-regret-loop)

_2026-05-25 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

What It Is and How To Fix It

## [Juvenalia](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/juvenalia)

_2026-05-09 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

When Julie Had Her Best Ride: a short story I illustrated and dictated to my mom when I was too little to write the words myself

## [ZIIP It, ZIIP It Good](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/ziip-it-ziip-it-good)

_2026-05-06 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

Some Thoughts on Getting Older and What I Did About It

## [Perfectly Imperfect](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/perfectly-imperfect)

_2026-04-28 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

narrating opposite truths and the nitty-gritty of editing a musical score

## [A Woman Can Be Violated, But God Help Her If She Refuses to Disappear](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/a-woman-can-be-violated-but-god-help)

_2026-04-24 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

Female Suffering is OK, But NOT Female Power

## [Stop Tracking, Fixing and Optimizing EVERYTHING](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/stop-tracking-fixing-and-optimizing)

_2026-04-19 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

It's Exhausting!

## [Talking (MTNA Part 2, Afterwards)](https://jocelynlovesagnestyrrell.substack.com/p/talking-mtna-part-2-afterwards)

_2026-04-06 · Jocelyn Loves Agnes Tyrrell · Jocelyn Loves Agnes_

Okay, WAY afterwards. But here's what I'm still thinking about from the conference.

## [Remember the #MeToo Movement?](https://thebloomingera.substack.com/p/remember-the-metoo-movement)

_2026-03-19 · Leanne Ely · The Blooming Era_

Yeah, #MeToo.

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_2026-03-19 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Do we need to talk about tits?](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/do-we-need-to-talk-about-tits/)

_2025-12-02 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

This summer a publisher sent me a free copy of a book which someone evidently thought would be right up my street. Written by the sociologist Sarah Thornton (who according to her bio “was once hailed as Britain’s hippest academic”), its title is Tits Up, and the blurb summarizing its content starts like this: Continue reading Do we need to talk about tits?

## [Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women and soundbite science](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/enough-already-punctuation-silly-women-and-soundbite-science/)

_2025-11-06 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamation marks three times as much as men. (With apologies to the American researchers, I m British so I m going to say marks , not points .) I’ve Continue reading Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women…

## [The birds and the bears](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/the-birds-and-the-bears/)

_2025-10-20 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

Over the years I have regularly been driven to distraction by the habit, especially among adults talking to young children, of referring to virtually all non-human animals as “he”. It’s the “default male” principle in action: if the sex of a living being is unknown or unspecified we automatically treat it as male. That impulse Continue reading The birds and the bears

## [Remembering Robin Lakoff](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/remembering-robin-lakoff/)

_2025-08-27 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

This month we learned that the linguist Robin Lakoff had died at the age of 82. If you’ve heard of Lakoff you will probably know her as the author of Language and Woman’s Place (LWP), an early and very influential contribution to the field of language and gender studies. It first appeared as an academic Continue reading Remembering Robin Lakoff

## [Gender, communication and Trump v. Musk](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/gender-communication-and-trump-v-musk/)

_2025-06-10 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

Last week the bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk ended in a spectacular war of words on social media. As the world watched, the US president and his First Buddy traded accusations, threats and insults. But while some people just reached for the popcorn, others apparently saw a golden opportunity to expound their pet Continue reading Gender, communication and Trump v. Musk

## [Linguistic engineering](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/linguistic-engineering/)

_2025-02-21 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

Since my last post was about the phrase “women of a certain age”, I was intrigued to see a report in the Mail Online last week which claimed that Bristol University wants to ban it, along with other ageist expressions like “golden years” and “silver surfer”. According to the Mail this is yet another example Continue reading Linguistic engineering

## [Women of a certain age](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/women-of-a-certain-age/)

_2024-12-06 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

Recently, as everyone reading this in Britain will already know, the Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace became the latest in a long line of Men On TV (the industry term is “talent”, though in this case it’s never been clear what talent TV producers thought he possessed) to “step back” from his presenting duties following allegations Continue reading Women of a certain age

## [Talking about the Taliban: culture versus politics](https://debuk.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/talking-about-the-taliban-culture-versus-politics/)

_2024-09-03 · debuk · language: a feminist guide_

Last week the Taliban in Afghanistan published a 114-page document setting out the latest official version of its laws on “vice and virtue”. Western news coverage focused particularly on Article 13, which according to press reports states that if it is necessary for women to leave their homes, they must cover their faces and voices Continue reading Talking about the Taliban: culture versus…