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Eve Vawter, Editor in Chief 

Age: 45

Favorite game as a kid: Mystery Date 

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Ballerina, candy tester, kitten farmer 

What you love most about getting old: The amount of fucks I give with each passing year gets less and less.

Send Eve a MASH note on Twitter: @EveVawter


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Avital Norman Nathman, Deputy Editor

Age: 36
 
Favorite game as a kid: Operation

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Pilot, Broadway star, superhero

What you love most about getting old: My crotchety quotient has increased dramatically and I love it.

Send Avital a MASH note on Twitter: @TheMamafesto


Karen Miner, Managing Editor

Age: 35

Favorite game as a kid: Cootie — specifically while playing with my grandma, and specifically NOT Monopoly while playing with my older sister. (She knows what she did.)

What you wanted to be when you grew up: This probably doesn't count, but I couldn't wait to be old enough to swear. 

What you love most about getting old: That I have turned into a grumpy old man hermit and am totally OK with it. 

Send Karen a MASH note on Twitter: @KarenJMiner


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Jennifer E. Cumby, Contributing Editor/Patron Saint of All Kittens

Age: 43

Favorite game as a kid: Pole Position

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Supreme Court justice, hair stylist, novelist, bricoleur vagabond

What you love most about getting old: Descendre aux choses sérieuses.

Send Jennifer a MASH note on Twitter: @GreenAsphodel


Asha Rajan, Senior Editor, "Domestic Arts" 

Age: 47

Favorite game as a kid: Parcheesi 

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Wonder Woman, novelist, journalist, vet, race car driver 

What you love most about getting old: Being confident and kickarse [or kickass!], and belly-laughing more.

Send Asha a MASH note on Twitter: @AshaRajan69


Jess Burnquist, Senior Editor, "Family Ties" 

Age: 45

Favorite game as a kid: Hi-Q, and anything that involved me pretending to have super powers.

What you wanted to be when you grew up: The next Laura Ingalls Wilder, a pen-tester-outer, and a nail-polish namer.

What you love most about getting old: My advice has become meaningful, the advice of others has become increasingly meaningless.

Send Jess a MASH note on Twitter: @jessieburnquist


Marianne Kirby, Senior Editor, "Beauty Industrial Complex" 

Age: 38

Favorite game as a kid: Run For The Money (It was a computer game about manufacturing and selling bananas to make money to escape the planet you crashed on: the game of capitalism.) 

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Financially independent. (I was not a fun kid.) 

What you love most about getting old: Being financially independent. JK. No longer being the target demographic for most popular marketing.

Send Marianne a MASH note on Twitter: @TheRotund


Deesha Philyaw, Senior Editor, "Back in the Day"

Age: 44

Favorite game as a kid: "School" (I was such a dork. And I had to be The Teacher every time.)

What you wanted to be when you grew up: A teacher

What you love most about getting old: Not really GAF what people think as much as I did in my 20s and 30s.

Send Deesha a MASH note on Twitter: @DeeshaPhilyaw


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Jenny Poore, Creative Director

Age: 41

Favorite game as a kid: Luke Skywalker escapes from the Wampa cave

What you wanted to be when you grew up: Mechanic, artist, writer, Jedi Knight

What you love most about getting old: Knowing so much more, caring so much less.

Send Jenny a MASH note on Twitter: @Jenny_Poore