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At the Movies: Talking About What We Don’t Like to Talk About
Recently I attended a friend’s 50th birthday party. It was a lively, festive affair with friends and family, abundant food & drinks, DJ & dancing, and performances and tributes by loved ones....
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Who Wants Socialism (and Why)?
by Sonya Chung “’I got a vanilla and a chocolate… which do you want?’ A rhetorical question. Who under voting age ever chose vanilla?” –Jackson Brodie, from Big Sky by (bloomer) Kate Atkinson It’s...
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Bloom as Resistance: 13 Years On
by Sonya Chung It’s been nearly 13 years since the launch of Bloom. The concept—of highlighting authors who hit their stride at age 40 or older—had kicked off a year earlier, at the literary site The...
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A Room of One’s Own and Women’s Writing Today
by Alice Lowe 1. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” This overarching theme of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own has been quoted widely, emblazoned on shirts,...
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Happy 10th Birthday, Bloom!
by Lisa Peet This week, Bloom turns 10. Not a long time in the greater scheme of things, maybe, but in internet years a decade is worth celebrating. In September 2011, Bloom founding editor Sonya Chung...
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An Overgrown Life
by Anne Rudig We’d rented a house we could never afford to buy in a Midwestern city that had been the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan and a terminus of the Underground Railroad. Botanically, it’s a...
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Younger: Uncoupling Age from Aging by Paulette Kamenecka
by Paulette Kamenecka The fervent interest, across time and culture, to locate a fountain of youth reflects a common dream to travel back to an earlier version of ourselves—one with more quickness of...
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The Note
by Anne Rudig I was nearing that in-between age—too old for babies and too young to be old—when we lived in a home on the best sledding hill in our Midwestern neighborhood. With a backyard view of the...
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Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House
by Lisa Peet 1.I have exactly three good habits, and they have served me well during the past year: I walk 2-1/2 miles around our local reservoir every morning before work, I take a round of vitamins...
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Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By
By Martha Anne Toll Please don’t just pass ’em by and stareAs if you didn’t care, say, “Hello in there, hello” “Hello In There,” John Prine And then I turned sixty. I don’t know how. I was just...
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On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
By Martha Anne Toll In an era when we could still travel, I attended a writing residency in the picture-perfect town of Auvillar, France. I brought with me a postcard of The Daughters of Edward Darley...
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The Secret Story: K. L. Cook on What’s Hidden
K. L. Cook is the author of six books. His first, Last Call, a collection of linked stories, won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Prize in 2004 when he was 40 and was published by the University of...
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Scarlett in Fact
by Maureen Teresa McCarthy “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…” Those famous lines are imprinted on the minds of many of us, girls who met Scarlett...
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The Dreaded Question
by Marlene Adelstein Now that my debut novel, Sophie Last Seen, has just been published and I’ve started doing readings and interviews to promote it, I’m hoping my least favorite question won’t pop...
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Serendipity at Seventy Plus
by Roy J. Adams At the age of 78, I just published my debut book of poetry. It was not the culmination of a life-long dream. Before my early 70s, I never imagined becoming a poet. During my first 69...
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Time for Something Else
by Pamela Holmes Above my head danced images of winged, haloed saints. A pelican pecked at her breast, feeding blood droplets to her young brood. Golden angels holding jewelled crowns leapt from the...
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Writing over 50: A Teacher’s Own Lessons
by Peter Krass When I recently launched an online workshop for over-50 writers, I guessed that many of the same challenges I faced as an older writer — I’m now 62 — would be shared by others. My guess...
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Lost & Found: Jenn Stroud Rossmann on Making, and Taking, Her Time
by Jenn Stroud Rossmann How do you find the time, some people ask a person who has a job and a family and has also written a novel. The person who has a job and a family and has also written a novel is...
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From Poetry to Prose: On Discovering a New Voice
by Elizabeth Garber I sometimes wonder why I write poetry. I can’t imagine doing anything else. This is how I save my life. Maybe this is how my mind sounds? One day, I thought, I write because I want...
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The Origins of Opportunity
by Sonya Terjanian My mother bloomed in her forties, but instead of a gentle unfolding, her bloom was more like an explosion. When my sister and I were three and five years old, she moved us all to a...
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