JULY 2013. GRAND TETON PEAK, WYOMING

JULY 2013. GRAND TETON PEAK, WYOMING

In February of this year I turned 65.  Ugh.  It seems catastrophically old.  Five years earlier, I had invented a cheerful motto to assuage the sting of turning 60, which seemed bad enough: “Sixty: Too young to quit skiing, too old to go bald.”  I couldn’t use that...