Lately, my writing about old age has been on the cheerful side. Not surprising, since I've been writing about successful aging and not about unsuccessful aging. Still, some people I know who are in their 80s or 90s have been saying to me, "Just you wait." I've begun to worry that my sense of aging is drawn from the young side of old age -- I am 71 -- and that I don't get what it's like to be very old. So, when I read a review of Donald Hall's Essays After Eighty, which made him sound like a very...
Not Such A Grumpy Old Man After All: A Review of Donald Hall's Essays After Eighty
The Huffington Post - 2 Feb 2015 20:58
Lately, my writing about old age has been on the cheerful side. Not surprising, since I've been writing about successful aging and not about unsuccessful aging. Still, some people I know who are in their 80s or 90s have been saying to me, "Just you wait." I've begun to worry that my sense of aging is drawn from the young side of old age -- I am 71 -- and that I don't get what it's like to be very old. So, when I read a review of Donald Hall's Essays After Eighty, which made him sound like a very...
Share this Article
Recommended