Count your age by friends

Subtitled: I'm still alive, and thank goodness for that

It’s official: I’m in my mid-fifties. I hear people often complaining about getting older, but, having been around early death and extended terminal conditions for most of my life, I thank my lucky stars to be here and in sound mind (mostly) and body (ditto).

Life continues throwing curveballs. My dad’s surgery was mostly successful but not without compl…