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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 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 of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyro...

Send us a Text Message. 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. You can buy a copy of Open to Love on Amazon. Dr. Horsley's foundation is Open to Hope. The Doctors' website is Golden Dating Doctors. Sup...

Send us a Text Message. 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 concluded he is old, after all. In this episode we take full credit for Joe Biden deciding to pull out of the race. We plan to send a link to th...

Send us a Text Message. 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 your library, or wherever you buy books. (if you buy this or other books on Amazon we may get a small commission, which helps to offset the ...

Send us a Text Message. 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 https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes j...

Send us a Text Message. 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 here. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleba...

Send us a Text Message. 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 recent Oldish: Book Club. He listened to the episode, and now here we are. Hi, Zan. Hi, Pa is at https://www.merullo.substack.com. It's always...

Send us a Text Message. 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 wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model s...

Send us a Text Message. 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 can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has ...

Send us a Text Message. 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, and especially what it means to be Oldish. You can purchase this or other books by Roland Merullo, and other books we've discussed in the Ol...

Send us a Text Message. 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 together on an epic adventure. You can purchase The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise and other books by Colleen Oakley on Amazon and ot...

Send us a Text Message. 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 help people understand and enjoy their own sexuality as they age? How has her view of these things changed over the last 20 years? If any o...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Oldish? Are we already in a dystopian future, in ourselves, our bodies, and our society? What, if anything, can we do about it? Is despair the...

Send us a Text Message. 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 just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purcha...

Send us a Text Message. 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 comment below. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pi...

Send us a Text Message. 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@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of ...

Send us a Text Message. 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 the players! Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyro...

Send us a Text Message. 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 BetterPickeball.com. Their podcast is Pickleball Therapy. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gr...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Pickleball https://amzn.to/40yK7EG Qijong Pickleball https://youtu.be/adnJhFtdRc0?feature=shared Kingian Nonviolence http://www.ctnonviolenc...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Trail. Shewas the epitome of Oldishness. Support the Show. Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannon...

Send us a Text Message. 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.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocit...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Pickleball shoes. Tyrol is the only company that makes a shoe just for pickleball, and they are crazy comfortable and supportive, just like y...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Chödrön's Groundlessness. Get into your ready position, and give it a listen! Dr Janet gives a shoutout to Erin McHugh, author of the bestseller ...

Send us a Text Message. 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 Oldish Pensioners who break out of the retirement home into...prison! It's entertaining, insightful, and quintessentially Oldish. Leslie Ross...