“We seem to think, when a big birthday looms, that when we cross that dreaded threshold it will bring with it a Cat. 5 typhoon somewhere in our body. But remember, we age one day at a time…And when you get there, it won’t be with the shock of having stepped into some time warp where you were stripped of your youth in an instant and stuffed into an old, creaky body. It will happen to you the way it’s happened to me. Gradually, with occasional cloudy weather.”