Shock and Awe! I Survived Long Enough to Become Someone Else’s “Old Lady”

Melinda Blau
Crow’s Feet
Published in
9 min readJan 26, 2022

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Strategies for enlisting courageous, productive and involved elders who exemplify how it’s done.

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“Do you think of YOURSELF as ‘an old lady’?”

“Yes, Jane, I do,” I say to my good friend of 60 years. I suspect that’s not the…

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Melinda Blau
Crow’s Feet

Writer/speaker/observer of relationships, I'm a hip old lady at large. I cover the dramas we all play out. Writing's a bitch, but it makes me happy.