Once I could do the Latin Hustle all night at any ballroom or go to the sixties dance at Roseland and watch the sun come up at a diner with a cup of coffee and a hangover. Now it is getting rough to hustle to the kitchen for an English muffin and a cup of tea.

The most important person in my life.

Few people saw life as Ernest Hemingway did. A restless spirit drawn to the risk-takers and the courageous, Hemingway understood probably better than any writer man’s essential nature. Here are several quotations from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea about growing old and being tough.

Embracing growing old.

Alone in the end.

Life is a fleeting moment…we all grow older… there is no way to escape it. Young people cannot imagine themselves old and some even make fun of older people. Many think they are invincible and have delusions that they will always be young, strong and good-looking. They live for the moment, then one day they suddenly realize they are old…it jumps up and catches them off guard. Disbelief and often shock set in at the realization that their lives are mostly used up. They begin to reflect deeply on their lives.

Written by a young man.

A senior citizen’s tirade over his slow descent into old age, as perceived by his significant others.

How I feel.

About love and growing old.