This is Death Sex and Money from WNYC. I'm Anna Sale. A few days ago we opened the

phones across the country and asked people who are over 60 to call in and tell us about

their lives right now. We wanted to know what we'd hear when you just ask, how you doing?

What do you know to sing about getting older right now?

And this week we're sharing some of the best of that conversation with you. Our call

in ran on public radio stations across the country and Joanne Allen hosted a lot of public

radio. Tonight we're taking your calls about getting older, especially during the past year

that we have had. If you are over 60, we want to hear how you're feeling your age differently

this year than last year. As these calls come in, Joanne, I want to share some of what we've heard

so far during this series, particularly about why it can be hard to talk about aging.

I'll think of age and maybe feel a little as being slightly odd or different from the people

around me. I was having the sense of being an older person and that this was new territory,

this was a new experience the way being adolescent or being pregnant or giving birth was new.

And I wanted to talk about it. Sometimes it makes me very angry because I feel superfluous.

I feel kind of like I'm a waste of space. I'm navigating new waters and it's not always easy,

but it's still kind of an adventure. That was just a bit of what we heard in our episode that we

called, just ask us your stories about life after 60 and you can find that at deathsexmoney.org

slash aging or in your podcast feed. I love Joanne with that listener said about aging being

similar to being pregnant or giving birth because so much about aging is about physical transformation.

But it's not one that there's a lot of discussion around. I want to orient ourselves for our listeners.

Joanne, I am a proud 40 year old person. You are a little older.

And I am a proud 67 year old. And I have to admit, I never imagined that once I got into my 60s

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