Glad you asked! When I get edgy about being old I simply listen to the grateful dead. Its not my favorite band mind you but it represents my generation and how powerful it is (was)Last of the baby boomers here!

I dont like the fact that the body breaks down so eaisily but I love the fact that Ive so many "experience points" on younger folk. Sure they are higher tech but I know enough to get by on my own. Ask a teen how long they could last living by 1972 standards and you'll get a good laugh because they wont have a clue. Makes me wish I listened to my folks more about living in the 40s.

I asked my older brother the other day if we were now old men..52 and 55. He said, "your younger than the mountain but older than a head of lettuce Kinda made sense somehow that its all about attitude.

Faith & Friendship
Pooly

Denial has been workin' pretty well for me!

"The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt is a webpage.

Hey, where are those "faster women" at?

Does seem to work for the mature ladies too. Old friend of mine uses her fast, small, difficult to get in and out of sports car to help weed out prospective suitors. As she says, small enough to fit, limber enough to get in and you are good to go.

Les,I like your mini library. I've read all but Hawking's book. I'd add "The Prince" to your list and re-read it every ten years.

acropolis5....it was purposely missing as somewhat of an inside joke... in 1972 I had the honor of being a lackey for one of the best Chinese Mandarin linguists in USAFSS, and he mentored me while working the air war over North VietNam...he always commented that the Command and General Staff College taught from the wrong textbook, and was always a war behind...and that they used Machiavelli and von Clausewicz and not Sun Tzu...I added T E Lawrence after 9/11

how do guys know when one is over the hill?

what physical signs indicate over the hill ?

When you trip over your own feet. And roll. And keep rolling. And you think you're rolling faster. That is when you know you've gone over the hill and are falling down the backside of it.

Ask a lady friend. Usually after 18 you're over the hill. It's just a comfortable downward trip from there on.