What's got my attention this week #16

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

Helen Mirren, 78, graces the cover of Dujour magazine – and doesn’t look like she was AI generated!

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• “You can’t have an ego with a garden.” What Helen Mirren does, when she’s not acting.
• I think this might be the first time I’ve seen “vaginal atrophy” in a headline in a national newspaper.
• What’s so scary about being mediocre?
• “My mother said, ‘Patty, I just don’t want you to wake up at 50 and be unhappy.’ I woke up at 50 in stilettos and a thong.”
• “Cooking rekindled my appetite for life.” Love this piece by Bee Wilson.
• Can you teach a grown adult to flirt?
• The deck of cards that could solve your emotional labour disputes.
• Love this piece about New Ground, a retirement community dedicated to older women.