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 othe booksellers. Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com ..read more

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 of these topics will upset or offend you, please do not listen. If you are oldish, and aging and sexuality are topics that in ..read more

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 only response? Support the show Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.com You can email Gregg at gregg@kannonco ..read more

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 Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.com Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music ..read more

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 Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.com Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music ..read more

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 Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.com Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music ..read more

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 gregg@kannoncom.com Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.com Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music ..read more

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.ctnonviolence.org/ Melinda’s Pickleball trips Carpe Dink'em Pickleball https://www.all-travel.com/vacations/vacation-types/pickleball-va ..read more

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 your playing partner. And the Vibram sole really stands up to the rough surface of the court. If you want to take care of you ..read more

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-Degnan enjoyed years in the classroom, loving picture books with young children. Now, in her oldish years, she spends time ..read more