A puzzling and amusing aspect of getting “old”, is that there’s apparently an exact point when the “age is just a number” nonsense becomes a milestone at which you need stuff you didn’t know you needed before then.… 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