Yes, that's me, as are all the pictures, except the watches, are in this post. LOL

My
brother is 5 years older than me and I seem to remember my wanting to
be as old as he was as we grew up in our childhood. It's funny as when
we are younger we can't wait to get older but at what age do we want to
stop getting older? Why does time go so slow when you are a kid and yet
so fast when you get middle aged and beyond?

When I was 13, had my Bar Mitzvah and became a 'man', I couldn't wait to become 18 because that meant I
could legally drink alcohol (hey, remember that was the stone
age--things were different!), drive a car, wasn't jail bait anymore and
could buy cigarettes.

Oh
yes, and enlist in the Marines. Before i knew it I was twenty-one,
living in Florida, earning a living and then I was 30, living in New
York, fat, drinking, single and life was starting to move fast. What
happened? As a teenager you sort of think you will never get that old,
never reach thirty and then one day you are there. Wasn't there a movie
about putting people over 30 in a 'camp', wasn't the saying of the day,
"Don't trust anyone over thirty"? Was that when time started to go too
fast?

Now
that I am in my 70s how come when  I  talk about something that
happened a 'few' years ago it is really 30 or more  40 years ago? Why
are stage shows like "The King and I" and "South Pacific" celebrating their 50th anniversary or movies like "Love Is A Many Splendored
Thing" was in theatres 55 years ago when I just saw them 'yesterday'?
"The Godfather" is 38 years old! How can I reconcile the fact I saw "A
Chorus Line" 34 years ago when I could swear it was just a couple of
months ago I sat in the first row of the mezzanine at the Shubert theatre and saw it for the first time and didn't the revival just tour here or was that really 2 years ago?

Next
time I want to talk about going from 31 to 75 'overnight' and kids
still impatient to grow up fast and as much as we want to slow them down
it's a lost cause.