Sari Botton

Because my mother is 85.

But like, you know, and my dad is 91.

But like...

I thought, you know, I better do some of the things I want to do because I don't know how long I have because my grandmothers didn't get to become who they might have been.

And I think of that George Eliot quote, it's never too late to be who you might have been.

It's something like that.

And my grandmothers didn't get that.

And so I made a conscious choice to

to take that for myself.

And right now, I feel like our world, our country, have been given a terminal diagnosis.

And so I feel an urgency to do all the things I really, really want to do.

Publish the Oldster Anthology, which I just got a deal for.

Put on live events.

I've now done two variety shows, one in Kingston.

at a bar called Unicorn and one at Joe's Pub in Manhattan.

Both were sold out.

I'm about to do a Gen X karaoke, piano karaoke event at Sid Gold's June 10th.

And then August 7th, I'm going to have the fifth birthday party for Oldster, another variety show at Joe's Pub.

These are things I would not have had the courage to try to put on a few years ago.

And I think the feeling like the world's clock is ticking is emboldening me and also adding this sense of urgency.