Terry Prone: Getting old means wanting to smack anyone who describes you as “feisty”

From wanting to smack anyone who asks if you’re “still” working to becoming impatient with Jane Fonda, getting old means a great many things, writes Terry Prone.

Jane Fonda with her Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes

Getting older. More of us are doing it, these days. Fewer are talking about it. Today, this column is a report from the front line...

Getting old means that you become impatient when Jane Fonda, now in her mid-80s, says she “isn’t proud” of having had a facelift. I’m not proud of having a dislocated elbow put back in place by an orthopedic surgeon. Should I be? And also, what’s pride got to do with it?