Modern.
The podcast is supported by produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston from the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Have you ever dated someone significantly older or younger than you?
Robin Grierson did and realized that age really can matter.
She writes about it in her essay the Accidental Older Woman.
Its read by Rosie Perez.
She stars in the new NBC show Rise.
To celebrate my 40th birthday, I signed up for a motorcycle rider course.
I had to bring gloves and boots, and while I suppose I could have borrowed these, I wanted to go shopping instead.
When I walked into the gear store, I realized how far out of my element I was.
I had no idea how to buy motorcycle boots, what features I needed, how they should fit.
The salesman Jesse was explaining how various safety features of specialized clothing could keep me from dying, and I was thinking, yeah, okay, but do these go over or under my pant legs?
When we turned our attention to helmets, Jesse said, to fit a helmet properly, you start by measuring the rider's head.
Was he making fun of me?
You mean it's not just small, medium, or large?
Jesse was about five foot seven with thick brown hair that just fell below his shoulders.
I have a big head, I joked, so I probably need a large.
He reached both hands around my head with a measuring tape.