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
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
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
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