The Final Lap, or What It's Like to Be 89

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My Last Decade

It’s a shock. Here I am a year away from being 90, and realize I only have about a decade left. I figure I’ll be checking out at around age 100. My dad lived to be 92, my mom 103, so it’s my last inning. Plus I’m not gonna stick around if things get dicey, but that’s an entirely other subject (of which I actually know quite a bit, and will probably do a post some day titled ”Final Exit.”) A few years ago, I read a quote from writer Gay Talese in Vanity Fair, where he said: “You figure, what can they do to me now? At 82, you can do anything or say anything you want — you’re bulletproof.…”…

The Final Lap, or What It's Like to Be 89

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