At Sixty Five
 

This article by Emily Fox Gordon was first published in The American Scholar in June of 2013 but bears reading for the thoughtful and prescient telling of the author’s coming to terms with that most unavoidable of human challenges: getting old. As she puts it, there is ’no bargaining’ with advancing age, and embracing the uncertainty of what lies ahead (albeit armed with wisdoms acquired along the way) is the only road ahead.