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.
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Send us a text 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? Next up, the 4th …
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Send us a text 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. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a ne…
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Send us a text 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. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack …
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Oldish Book Club: Judith Viorst Decades Poems
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Send us a text 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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Send us a text 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.bebrave…
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Oldish:Book Club The Oldish Man and the Sea
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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, Nav…
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Send us a text 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... Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanet…
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Send us a text 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, c…
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Send us a text 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, espe…
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Send us a text 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.…
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Send us a text 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 discu…
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Send us a text 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 t…
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Send us a text 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! Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter …
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Send us a text 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…
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Oldish: Boomers Booming With an Asterisk
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Send us a text 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…
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Oldish Book Club: It's Not All Downhill From Here
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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…
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Oldish: From WTF? to Contentment, Even Joy- The Presidential Election
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Send us a text 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. Support the show…
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Oldish Book Club: Walking Each Other Home
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Send us a text 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,…
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Send us a text 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,…
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Send us a text In this episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust discuss the benefits of showing up. You already won! Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes. You can email Gregg…
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Send us a text 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.…
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Send us a text 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 con…
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Oldish Book Club:Still Life with Breadcrumbs
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Send us a text 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 …
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Oldish: The Debate - Are these guys Oldish?
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Send us a text 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 Support the show Connect with Janet at ht…
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Oldish Book Club: Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
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Send us a text 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? Get Tehanu and othe books by Ursula K. LeGuin he…
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Send us a text 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 re…
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Send us a text 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. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publi…
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Send us a text 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? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Greg…
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Oldish Book Club: The Delight of Being Ordinary
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Send us a text 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, …
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Send us a text 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 t…
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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". What does that saying, in the context of The Hunger Games hard look at a dystopian future, mean for we who are O…
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Oldish: No Sorries, In Life or Pickleball
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Send us a text 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? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progre…
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Send us a text 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 comme…
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Send us a text 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. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newslette…
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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 BetterPick…
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Oldish: The Curious History of Pickleball
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text In this episode of Oldish:Conversations on Oldish in the 21st Century, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk with our book club friend Leslie Ross-Degnan about the book Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery. It's the true story of Emma Gatewood, who at the age of 67 became the first woman to thru hike the Appalachian Tr…
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Send us a text In this episode of Oldish co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day. What have we learned about the history, our understandings and beliefs, our education, and how can we go forward? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where…
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Oldish The Dinking Game Partner Communication
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Send us a text In this episode of our continuing series The Dinking Game, linking pickleball and real life, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a wide ranging conversation about how important it is to communicate clearly with your partner while playing pickleball and in the rest of your life, too. Gregg is very happy with his new Tyrol P…
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Oldish: The Dinking Game -The Transition Zone
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Send us a text In this episode in the Oldish series The Dinking Game, co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have a lively conversation about the Transition Zone in Pickleball, that area, sometimes called No Man's Land, between the back line and the non-volley zone (aka The Kitchen), and relate it to real life, and to Buddhist teacher Pema Chödr…
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Oldish Book Club: Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
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Send us a text In the latest episode of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust sit down with our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan to talk about The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Swedish author Catharina Ingelman-Sunberg. It's the first in the League of Pensioners series. It's a rollicking heist novel about a group of O…
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Send us a text In this episode of Oldish, Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust discuss Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech on the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington. What did it mean to us then, and what does it mean to us, and our country, now? Has the dream come true? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gr…
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Send us a text This week, on Independence Day in the USA, co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust share their experiences of July 4, and wonder what it might be like 50 years from now. Take a break between bites and explosions, and give a listen. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter …
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Oldish: The Dinking Game - Don't Force it!
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Send us a text In this Dinking Game Episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust talk about the ancient concept of wu Wei, which Alan Watts translated as Not Forcing. How does this apply to pickleball, especially the dinking game, and real life? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newslette…
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Send us a text In this Shortish episode Dr. Janet and Gregg talk about what Fathers Day means to them. How about you? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes. You can email Gregg at gregg…
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Send us a text In this in our series Shortish Episodes Dr. Janet and Gregg talk about the dinking game, in pickleball and life. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com Gregg has a new substack newsletter where he's publishing writings old and new: poems, short pieces, works in progress, opinions and notes. You can email Greg…
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