Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It: “The AARP is now apparently employing mind readers on it’s membership committee, because somehow they were able to sense how I feel. Today in the mail I received a personalized plea to join the group and “get the most out of life over 50.” Please, give me another decade before you tell me that I’m an old fart.”
DFO: Ouch! I blew past 50 and now am 56. I don’t belong to AARP, however. Never got around to it. Mebbe I’m in denial. On the other hand, I still keep a great pace at work and enjoy life more than ever now. So, I don’t think 50 is something to fear, Phil. Probably my lone concession to age was to give up softball. That, and I walk instead of jog. Any of the rest of you out there fearing the Big 5-0? Or 4-0? Or even 3-0?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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