I am creating this blog because I can’t find anyone else who wants to guide me into the 3rd act of my life.  I turned 60 this year.  All parts are still working.  I’m still working too.  Happily married to a woman who does now and has from the day we met given me great pleasure and loads of love.  But I am fast approaching the day when I won’t work and parts will stop working the way they have for 60 years and my dearest wife and I will have to say goodbye one to the other.  My children – I am a late blooming father who had his first child at age 39 and last of 3 at age 45 – my children are vacating the house.  Much to my chagrin they are growing up and out.  First stop is college and then who knows.  Nothing – well, almost nothing – has given me as much pleasure as being a dad.  I treasured every moment from the moment of conception and never wanted to see these days end.  I’m a little angry in fact.  If we are put on this earth ultimately to procreate, then please, we should have more time with them than 17 lousy years.

So i plan to check in from time to time I will check in and register my complaints, observations, joys and disappointments as I travel these last years of my life.  I hope it’s another 40 but some of my best pals are already gone so it might not be.  I will ask questions of myself and of you, dear reader, that i so rarely hear asked in a world (or maybe it’s just the developed world) that is more concerned with staying young than growing old gracefully.

Wish me luck.