There’s no doubt a simple (and worrying) explanation for how websites know I’m aging. What bemuses me is why the advertisements they target me with appear to have been devised by what can only be people with a life experience that, unlike me, doesn’t precede the digital age.… Read the rest
The trajectory being pretty much set and relentlessly shortening, it seems to me that we who are aging ought to be granted freedom from an excess of choices. Instead, we get a seemingly inexhaustible wellspring of advice on how to have a longer and healthier, and ergo, happier life. So far, all I’ve learned from it is summed up by screenwriter William Goldman’s description of the movie business: “Nobody knows anything…Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.”… Read the rest
Given that it was defined by Covid, I doubt that anyone will mourn the passing of 2021, although many of us may experience a twinge or two of regret as we contemplate one less year in our allotted time. In the Monty Pythonesque spirit of “always look on the bright side of life”, herewith some musings on wasting time by trying to fight its passage.… Read the rest