Hard to believe it has been eighty-one years or that Martha and I have been married for sixty years. However, the proof is in the mirror, and I keep wondering what happened to the guy in the 1958 and 1962 photographs. The extraordinary thing is that time accelerates as you get older. It moved so slowly in the beginning. We were in a hurry to grow up, but it took so damn long. It was amazing how much we could accomplish or get done in an hour, a day, a week, or a month.

But with age, time speeds up and we accomplish less and less in each day, each week, or each month—of course, there is less that needs to be accomplished. At eighty-one—the children are grown as are their children, the house is full, the closets are full, the drawers are full, the trees are full grown, the landscapers keep the lawn, etc. etc.

It is time to enjoy the fruits of those earlier years when time moved slower, and I moved faster! Now I finally have time to write. That is something I really enjoy. And since retiring from business life, I have published nine books. I just wish it didn’t take me so damn long to write them. I keep wondering if I’m getting slower—then I remember. It isn’t me; time has just gotten faster!

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