The Golden Years, Told Honestly: Susan's Poetry at Arbor Terrace Mountainside

In this episode of The Golden Gang podcast, Engagement Coordinator Kathleen sits down with Susan, a resident at Arbor Terrace Mountainside and a lifelong writer whose high school English teacher once told her she had the soul of a poet. Susan shares two of her original works, "I Can't Get Out of Bed" and "Old Age Is Not for Sissies," reading both aloud and explaining the stories behind them. Along the way she talks about growing up in Brooklyn in a family of artists and performers, marrying at 20, raising four daughters, and learning somewhere along the road that she no longer needs to soften what she thinks. Her poems are funny, blunt, and unmistakably real, and her message is simple: aging brings highs and lows, and a sense of humor helps you through the lows.