First came the thinning on top, followed by an equal and opposite expansive roundness in the middle. Some obscure law of physics, no doubt. Then came the wrinkles, the sags, the aches, and the “Where the hell are my glasses?” Now, dear God, I’m talking to myself. Out loud. Often without even knowing it. Just…
Burt Reynolds, that aging sex stud whose nude body once graced the pages of Cosmopolitan (see below from 1972), complains that he’s washed up as a ladies’ man. Six years ago, while working on his film, “The Crew,“ he and costar Richard Dreyfuss discovered a horrible truth: That the one-time sex-magnets got nothing but the…
One of the things that go with the territory of being a published essayist or columnist is that you get called a lot of names by readers expressing their opinions of what you have written. Sometimes, you learn from them; others you simply shrug them off. But a couple of comments following a column I…
Standing in a cafeteria line at my 45th college reunion, the woman from the DePauw University class of ’58 asked of no one in particular, “When did I get old?” 50th College Reunion Evokes Memories, Melancholy Conversation stopped. My first thought: Since I’m from the class of ’57, I must be older than old. Geez!…
Had any “senior moments” lately? You know. You’ll be talking along like at any other time in your life, and suddenly you can’t remember the name of your best friend. Or the movie you saw last night. Or what the initials AARP stand for. It’s a sudden, embarrassing slice of silence. A senior moment. Remember…
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