Saturday, January 19, 2013

Being Young Ain't What It Used to Be

Being young feels older than it did 10 years ago.

I have more sadness about losing my hair than I thought I would.  I always told myself that if I were to lose my hair, I would just let it go.  Now I yell for everyone to quiet down when the Rogain add comes on.  The real problem is that I am losing it in such a way that there is no graceful adjustment period.

And I have to stretch before I exercise.  What's that all about?  And after hiking in the Wadi, as we did this morning with Lucky, my knees are killing me.

The Wadi
My back hurts.

My high school friends are posting wedding photos on Facebook...their kids' weddings.

Watching a classic Christmas movie with the kids a few weeks ago, I fielded this devastating question: Dad, why does the phone have that string attached to it?

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