Pizzey's Perch

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