"I know I'm not the only one. There are millions of us stuck in the liminal space between unemployment and invisibility." I handed in a job application at a sandwich shop last week. There was a...

Wow, it's good to know that I'm not alone in this. I'm 57, and I was a tenured professor at Antioch College for ten years. Then, the powers that be... decided to close the undergraduate college, hire adjuncts, and go mostly online as a diploma mill. I was lucky enough to get a job teaching high school. Then, Covid, a stroke, brain surgery, and I was fired via Zoom. It gets worse, but I lie about my age to get 60+ age movie tickets. It's easier than lieing about my age back in the 1980's to get into "R" movies. I have a job interview tomorrow for a college dean position which I probably won't get, but I don't get the jobs I'm overqualified for anyway. My only advice is despite everything, despite denying my own abilities, keep plugging away. Somehow, somewhere, you just may find something amazing, or perhaps, it may even find you. Invisibility is a chronic problem for people of a certain age. Keep seeking, and you'll eventually be seen. more

I'll be 57 yrs old next month and recently found out that i will never be able to work again! Mental health is something that i've hid from so many until i broke down and knew i needed help. I believe...

Same Hands, Different Mind: A Life in Clay After my Brain Started Bleeding



In 2022, I had a massive hemorrhagic stroke during Covid 19. I was... hospitalized, and I had brain surgery. After that, I spent a long time in a rehabilitation facility in upstate New York where I learned how to walk and perform other basic duties again. The facility and the staff were incredible, but they were missing one critical thing, well, at least for me. They didn't have a therapeutic art program. My wife Julie brought me a small sketchbook and a few pens so I could draw in my hospital bed. As a practicing artist and art educator for decades, this made me realize something unexpected had suddenly happened, that despite decades of teaching, and even publishing a few articles about disabilities and the arts, I was now in the role of the adult patient and student for the very first time in my life.

Have you ever had a mosquito bite that you just can't leave alone? Sure, it itches, and perhaps it has alt more

I'll be 57 yrs old next month and recently found out that i will never be able to work again! Mental health is something that i've hid from so many until i broke down and knew i needed help. I believe...

Same Hands, Different Mind: A Life in Clay After my Brain Started Bleeding



In 2022, I had a massive hemorrhagic stroke during Covid 19. I was... hospitalized, and I had brain surgery. After that, I spent a long time in a rehabilitation facility in upstate New York where I learned how to walk and perform other basic duties again. The facility and the staff were incredible, but they were missing one critical thing, well, at least for me. They didn't have a therapeutic art program. My wife Julie brought me a small sketchbook and a few pens so I could draw in my hospital bed. As a practicing artist and art educator for decades, this made me realize something unexpected had suddenly happened, that despite decades of teaching, and even publishing a few articles about disabilities and the arts, I was now in the role of the adult patient and student for the very first time in my life.

Have you ever had a mosquito bite that you just can't leave alone? Sure, it itches, and perhaps it has alt more