This year, I turned 60. I knew it was coming, but for some reason it hit me hard. I'm old. I'm a senior citizen. That's not how I feel; this is what my culture tells me.
A lot of things have happened in my life in the last few years. Some were surprising. If you had told me that I would become friends with an author whose work I admire and who is the ex-wife of my state's former governor, I would have said your were hallucinating. That happened, though, and it's among other surprising things including doing my second and then third public radio interviews, being part of the TED organization's $10,000 Mystery Experiment, having surgery for something incredibly odd, and then being diagnosed with a complex auto-immune disease.
Life is a journey, but it's also a carnival house of mirrors that disorients and confounds without notice. I'm not sure what to make of it all. Keep evolving--it's a trip.
