Watching a table of older friends across a restaurant, the author of Salvation South's monthly "Between Sundays" column, Diana Keough, gets a jolt of fear about where time is taking her—and wonders how to grow old with open hands instead of a clenched jaw.

Diana Keough is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is the creator of Not From a Nice Family, a memoir podcast that will be released by Audible on September 17, 2026.