Halloween Haunts: I’m Old Now and Halloween was Better Once… Really by John F.D. Taff
Ok, you know, it's true what they say about growing old. Yes, about the aches and pains. OK, yes, about the fossilfication of your music choices. And, sigh, yes, also about the general jadedness about life and jaundiced viewpoints about…well, let's not stray too far, here, shall we? Also part of growing old is a distressing tendency to digress… No, what I'm talking about here is how those of us who are older—and at 50 years old I count myself amongst them—have a tendency to view our past as some sort of privileged golden age that was there only for…