On turning fifty

Do you accept the linear bell curve of old age? I don't.

I turn 50 today. It feels like 30, but better. More landed. Less buzzy.

I feel this milestone lends me a certain licence to write about aging.

Some frame 50 as having passed a half-way peak. They position it somewhere on the decline down the other side. But that only sticks if you envisage existence as a linear bell curve. I don’t.

I feel, as with so muc…