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Embracing my future face with a new wrinkle

2 Comments / Newspaper columns / July 12, 2025 / aging, birthdays, The Old Man and the Sea / 4 minutes of reading

My boy took my photo the other day. Ever the fun-loving young man – he turns 20 in 10 days – he then ran it through an AI app to show me my future face. I appeared in a somewhat flattering light as an old man with a beard, gray and long and expected. Okay. But by some wild AI maneuver I also somehow stood beside a

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Hey, Old Man (and the Sea), Happy Birthday!

If we were all old men we could do worse than land in Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella The Old Man and the Sea. The story, among the most loved of the 20th century, just turned 70. The old man – his name is Santiago – is an outsider. He’s impoverished. Has horrible luck. Hasn’t caught a