Humor: Growing old 124 Articles

by Leeuna Foster

You know you're getting older when the funniest thing about falling down is watching it happen to someone else. I've always heard that we're only as old as we feel. If that is the case, then most days I'm a fossil. A...read more

by Joseph Broadworth

Aging is something that no one can really prepare for. You could try, but what you expect will in most cases elude you. I have known this for a long, long time. Some say that with age comes wisdom, I'm still waiting for th...read more

by Pat Denehy

There's a stranger living in my house. She's very rude. Whenever I peer into the mirror, she stares back at me with drooping eyelids. It's funny - she looks a little like me, but of course, she can't be me. For one thi...read more

by Charlie H.

What is it about "growing old" that seems to unite us? I think it's that "sense" we all seem to get around the age of 45-50 (some get it earlier, some later...largely dependent on prior habits, choices and lifestyles, of ...read more

by CDKlein

I have been growing old all of my life. I should be comfortable with it by now. I have been doing it for over 55 years. Yet, I think I am not near as good at it now as I was 30 years ago. I could run like the wind, e...read more

by Teresa Anne Ng

When I turned thirty I thought it was the end of the world, and fifty seemed a long way off. This month I turned fifty, so it wasn't that far off after all. Do I have any words of wisdom, nope, would I change anything abou...read more

by John Handy

Growing old? It has its good points and its bad points. I may be a bit sad when I remember the time before bits started falling off, like hair and teeth, and parts of the rest of me gradually stopped working like they s...read more

by Jacquie Gum

MY LEGS AND ME - A Coming of Age Story I was twelve years old and we were visiting my grandfather's farm in West Virginia. My aunt and her children from Baltimore had joined us. My brother, my cousin, and I had spe...read more

by Chris Adkins

Elders of the Tribe My wife is exceedingly fond of her grandmother Lucretia and she diligently drives to the rest home every week to gather pearls of wisdom from the world's oldest oyster. Grandma Lucretia is an eight...read more

by Maria Ragan

AAAP has been stalking me this entire year. Say AAAP a few times really fast. It even sounds like a bloodhound on your heels. I finally gave in and signed up. I also discovered at fifty I could join the local senior center...read more

by Mary Tilley

I woke up one morning and I saw gray hairs. I never noticed them before. Where have I been? How could those gray hairs go unnoticed all of this time? I frantically began to rip everyone out I could see but underneath the f...read more

by Diane Quinn.

I wondered when this day would come. The possibility of another event like this happening has been playing in the back of my mind ever since I sprayed my hair with deodorant. Okay, it was an easy mistake to make right? ...read more

by Barbara Kasey Smith

I always tell my closest friends that I'm "never" going to grow old but every day I'm reminded that I am getting older by the day. My knees pop and crack like a popcorn popper popping popcorn. In my mind I look for them to...read more

by James Unekis

Reptile Dysfunction I was watching a sports channel the other night and was absolutely shocked by the commercial . The ad went on and on about Reptile Dysfunction. Now I keep up to date on current events but I was total...read more

by Michael Aubrey

My friend Larry told me about the only option to growing old. It was during my feeble attempt at a 'mid-life crisis'. Somewhere I read I was supposed to go through one. A mid-life crisis, I mean. Larry's wisdom was always ...read more

by Alice Shevitz

"Once upon a Time" used to be a phrase that set my heart afire. They were four words that held promise and potential...the promise of an exciting story that would transport me to worlds unknown, or the potential for learni...read more

by Richard Meese

I remember the exact moment I became old. I was in downtown Indianapolis at a bar that I had been to dozens of times before on business trips. It was a spot called Blondies which had a funky, 50s feel to it with a DJ w...read more

by Jean Butler

Who said getting old is mind over matter? I'm getting older. My mind is going; and everything that matters is falling down or falling out. I've got this "new" product I'm using before I go to bed now. I should say my husba...read more

by Sandra Haney

Growing old is a natural part of life and not all of us do it gracefully. I found that exercise is not always in our vocabulary any more. And I actually bought my husband a bow-flex machine which he has only used a co...read more

by Linda Ann Nickerson

WHACK-A-MOLE I once was young, but now am old; My skin hangs off my face in folds. The old libido's growing cold, And I see Doctor Whack-a-Mole. This nasty physical assault Is, truthfully, my own darn fault. I ...read more