SOME THOUGHTS ON AGING from Caterina Fake. She’s right. I’m at the age when people are sometimes surprised at how old I am, and other times surprised at how young I am, depending on how they know me and their frame of reference. And either way, it seems odd to me.

My favorite quote is from (I think) Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I don’t feel like an old man. I feel like a young man who has something seriously wrong with him.” I suspect that when I’m at an advanced age I’ll feel the same way. One hopes, of course, that by then “advanced age” will be in the high triple digits. . . .