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Paula Cocozza

Paula Cocozza is a feature writer for the Guardian and a novelist. Speak to Me was published in 2023. Twitter @CocozzaPaula

November 2023

  • Kerrie Houston Reightley, pictured surfing in Mexico

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I learned to surf – despite the alligators

  • ‘I was a girl, therefore, I should like dolls and dressing up. No, thank you’ … Morag Chisholm

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I’ve been an accountant, a sailor, a goat breeder … now I’m a counsellor

October 2023

  • Steve Howgego, singing in Ruskin Park

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I was jobless and struggling to pay my mortgage. Busking turned my life around

  • Amy Pohl portrait

    How we survive
    I have spent years in such pain that I begged for someone to cut my arm off. This is how I survived

  • Jill Wright dressing an actor backstage at Les Miserables.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: my son died – so I changed career to keep his dream alive

  • Illustration: Eleanor Bannister

    The heat or eat diaries
    I have a new job, but the thought of universal credit still gives me anxiety

    Sharron Spice

  • A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I became a lifeguard – and find every day mind-blowing

  • A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: A set of carpentry tools deepened my bond with my late father

  • A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I wanted to find myself – so I kayaked 6,800 miles alone

September 2023

  • Okene in a life vest.

    How we survive
    I survived three days in a capsized boat on the ocean floor – praying in my air bubble

  • Chris Raven playing one of the baroque flutes he has made, in the garden of his Dorking home.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I spent my career in IT – but rediscovered my childhood love of music at 70

  • Mike Parish in garden

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I spent 40 years hiding that I was gay. Then my husband’s dementia wiped away my fear

  • Dorrit Bøilerehauge who became a model in her 60s white suit and denim, photographer ASBJØRN CHRISTENSEN

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: ‘I was scouted by a model agency. Now I get to show that mature people can be cool’

August 2023

  • Joy France pictured at Manchester Academy

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I’m a short, greying woman – and the world’s oldest battle rapper

    The year Joy France turned 60, she pledged to try 60 new things. It led to her trading insults with MCs on the international stage
  • Michelle Obama presents the Social Justice Impact Award during the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on March 27, 2021. (Photo by NAACP via Getty Images)

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: best of 2023...so far - part 1

    The Weekend team are taking a break. So for the next two weeks, we’re looking back at some of our favourite pieces of the year.
  • MUST MENTION LOCATION IN ALL CAPTIONS, THANK YOU! Judith Holder photographed at the Leicester Square Theatre where she recorded an episode of her podcast with Jenny Eclair "Older and Wider". Judith Holder has a distinguished career in television having produced some of the funniest people in the business including Clive James, Billy Connolly, Dame Edna Everage, Victoria Wood and Lenny Henry. She has also written her own comedy pieces which she has performed on Woman’s Hour and Home Truths. She is the author of The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman and Grumpy Old Holidays.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I came out of my shell when I retired. Now, I’m a podcast star at 67

    Distinguished but disillusioned, TV producer Judith Holder decided to stop work at 60. Now, she co-hosts a hit show with the comedian Jenny Eclair and has sold out a West End theatre

July 2023

  • One use in G2 only - A new start after 60

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row

  • Illustration showing a man kissing a phone accidentally when leaning in to kiss his partner

    Stop phubbing! The 10 rules of smartphone etiquette – from the bathroom to your bed

  • Peeps Nichol

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: ‘I became a powerlifter at 71 – and I’ve never felt so good about myself’

  • Ben Affleck in the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl.

    Married to the mob: the rise of the smartphone in fiction

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