re: Question for you Old Heads.

My hairline rapidly receded in my 20s, so that was one point of mirror shock. But I look at pics from then and I look very young and not bald compared to 20-30 years later of course.

When I’m my ideal weight and have stubble versus graybeard, I look about the same as a decade ago.

I’ve fluctuated between 165 and 195 over the past 8 years in part due to illness, but around 80% of the time I’m in a very narrow healthy range. Too skinny or conversely bloated makes me look a lot older.
All of that to say…
I got home from a loooong road trip with kids the other night and holy crap I looked like Randy Quaid. Now.


I was bloated, baggy-eyed and haggard. Freaked me out. Two days of sun, sleep, exercise, eating well/(not eating), and I’m almost back to normal. It was crazy to see. We can’t avoid aging, but we absolutely can age well (or “better,” excepting for certain diseases and conditions of course).