Inspiration

I'm not a fan of reality TV, but when some friends we respect recommended "Clarkson's Farm," my wife and I decided to give it a chance. It was love at first episode. The "Clarkson's Farm" saga, which now spans five seasons on Amazon Prime, follows British broadcast personality Jeremy Clarkson as he struggles to learn how to farm the 1,000-acre farm that he has owned for many years. (The property's long-time tenant farmer retired.) Clarkson is in his mid-60's and knew nothing

Living Rock God Mick Jagger recently did two podcast interviews to promote the Rolling Stones latest album, Foreign Tongues. His conversations with the New York Times and Conan O'Brien are fascinating, even if you aren't a Stones or classic rock fan. In the NYT interview, Jagger rejects social pressure to deny that aging takes a toll, and acknowledges that he has to work around some of his limitations, likening it to still being on the soccer team, but now playing goalie inst

At 60, David Hull traded a radio news microphone for a personal chef's apron. I used to be someone else. Several times, in fact. Once or twice, I chose to become someone else. Sometimes I was pushed into it. When that happened, I always tried to make sure my pockets contained stuff I might need. My current incarnation as a personal chef resulted from a push. Fortunately, at 60 I had plenty of experience to draw upon as I thought about what came next. Most of the time we are d

A few years ago, I made a discovery about my identity. I learned that, even though I was born in the 1950’s, I am not a Baby Boomer. I’m a member of a “micro-generation” called Generation Jones. It’s hard to explain how good that information made me feel, as if my place in the world was just a little better defined. Generation Jones is made up of people born roughly between 1954 and 1965. (I was born in 1959.) While we are technically part of the Baby Boom generation, many o