Holy Cow! Generation X is Turning 60 Next Year
The Crow’s Feet podcast explores a new generation aging into a changing world.
Remember when Generation X — those born 1965–1980 — seemed forever young? Next year, the oldest of the cohort, including writer Sari Botton, will celebrate 60 years around the sun. For many reaching that milestone the prospect of aging becomes very real. Sari shared her thoughts on the topic with me in the Crow’s Feet Life As We Age podcast.
Sari is an author, editor of best-selling anthologies, and publisher of Substack’s Oldster Magazine.
While emphatically stating she couldn’t speak an entire generation, Sari captured the zeitgeist of Gen Xers as they wrestle with the relentless path of aging.
Our conversation explored some of the larger anxieties Generation X confronts as they age: climate change, economic and job uncertainties, and a dark view of Social Security’s stability. “It could be destroyed by the time it’s our turn,” she observed.
Resentment toward Boomers bubbled to the surface, too. “We haven’t had the opportunity to amass the kind of retirement accounts that boomers have. We’re really going to struggle,” Sari noted.
All this against the backdrop of more conventional worries about moving into…
