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,…

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,…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the s…

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.…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wea…

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 You …

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes jus…

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…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kanno…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.co…

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…

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…

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…

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 Yo…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannonc…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kanno…

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair …

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 You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the …

Send us a text In this edition of Oldish Book Club our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan joins us for a lively discussion of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America. Steinbeck's story of his trip around America in a camper van in 1960 is a true tale of Oldishness told by a master story teller. What can it tell us about who we are today? …

Send us a text In this first episode of our new series Shortish Conversations, Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust chat for a while about what Memorial Day means to them, now that they are Oldish. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only com…

Send us a text Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust, co-hosts of Oldish, have a conversation about how it feels, and what it means, to have completed a year of publishing Oldish, while being oldish. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only com…

Send us a text Dr Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust are joined for a conversation with Steve Raymond, specialist in elder care and pickleball coach. We talk about oldishness in general, and specifically what Steve calls the Pickleball Paradox: Pickleball as a primary public health intervention, and also a source of potential injury to oldish players. H…

Send us a text Today we sit down for a conversation with Jacob Kendall, PhD, a social worker with a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Aging, now in Divinity School. In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about how aging is viewed in other cultures, including in Malawi. Jacob Kendall (he/ him) is from the Birmingh…

Send us a text For this first episode of our new recurring series Oldish Book Club, Dr. Janet and Gregg are joined by Leslie Ross Degnan for a review and conversation about Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. What happens when an oldish woman stays behind on an abandoned colony planet? You can buy Remnant Population on Amazon by clicking here. (i…

Send us a text Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust visit with author Lynn Brown Rosenberg to talk about her memoir My Sexual Awakening at 70. Almost ten years after its publication, how has it changed her life? How does it feel to be Oldish in her 80s? You can purchase Lynn Brown Rosenberg's book My Sexual Awakening at 70 on Amazon. This link will ta…

Send us a text We sit down for a conversation with our friend Denise Reehl to talk about the sorrows and joys of long distance grand parenting while Oldish. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleb…

Send us a text We have a lively conversation with Entrepeneur, Meditator and Pickleball player Ken Ross. He has many interesting things to say about growing a business, and a community, and what it means to be Oldish. To get Erin McHugh's new book Pickleball is Life, or any pickleball or van life gear, click here to go to Amazon. For more picklebal…

Send us a text Gregg is back from his adventure on the road as Pickleball Nomad. We sit down to share stories o his travels. To get Erin McHugh's new book Pickleball is Life, or any pickleball or van life gear, click here to go to Amazon. For more pickleball gear go to Pickleball Central (disclaimer: if you buy anything using these links Oldish get…

Send us a text Dr. Janet and Gregg talk with our new friend author Erin McHugh, whose new book Pickleball is Life has just come out. We learned lots of new things and had a lot of laughs. You can buy Pickleball is Life here, and check out some of Erin's other books, too. (if you purchase a book using this link Oldish will get a small commission). T…

Send us a text Dr. Janet and Gregg talk with Stewart Lynch, a distinguished educator, about his path to recareering, and learning to swim, while Oldish. Here's a link to Stewart's Youtube: https://youtube.com/@StewartLynch Stewart taught himself to swim using a Swimming Pool Buoy. You can get one here (note Oldish will get a small commission if you…

Send us a text Note: If you listened to this prior to 1:30 pm EST on October 3, 2022 you listened to an older episode I uploaded by mistake. This is the real one! Give it a listen. In this episode Gregg launches his Pickleball nomad adventure with a swing through Downeast Maine. Come along as he plays pickleball, camps, hikes, makes new discoveries…

Send us a text Dr. Anne Coleman joins Dr. Janet and Gregg to share her experience finding and reuniting with her birth family while Oldis Dr. Anne Coleman is a psychotherapist and educator with over 30 years of experience as a clinician and a professional in the adoption field. Anne has a private practice where she works with adolescents and adults…

Send us a text In this episode Gregg goes on and on about online - mostly YouTube - resources and content creators who have influenced and leveled up his #pickleball and #vanlife chops and choices. Shoutouts to: Pickleball: CJ Johnson: Better Pickleball https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPCL77CefNGj90THzXYTnA Tony Roig: Pickleball Therapy https://w…

Send us a text In which Janet interviews Gregg as he's getting ready to set off on new adventures as Pickleball Nomad. Here are some links to some of Gregg's favorite pickleball and van life resources: Podcast: Pickleball Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pickleball-therapy-in2pickle/id1523311733?i=1000567582631 Youtube: Pickleball Pick…

Send us a text Today we are talking with my old friend Dave Swarthout. Dave is a part time expat, avid birder, photographer, map maker, and pickleball player. He has lots to share about being oldish. You can find links to some of Dave's stunning photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06/with/49212527607/ And to OpenStreetMap here: Th…

Send us a text In this week’s episode of Oldish Janet and Gregg talk with Chris Balch about trekking to Mt. Everest Base Camp to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. How does it feel to be an aging adventurer? For more information on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy visit Hope for Gus Foundation at https://hopeforgus…

Send us a text In this week’s episode co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust open the Oldish conversation by talking with each other about the meaning of Oldish, how it feels to them, and how they got here. How does it feel to be aging in the 21st Century? For more information on Dr. Janet Price https://drjanetprice.com For more information on …