"Little girls get bigger everyday.
Added Chapter 100"
At some point little girls get so big they aren't little any more. I wonder if 100 chapters is that point?
"Tyche" by Old Man with a Pen
Not many stories are written anymore with pens or pencils. Even typewriters have gone into the past. Perhaps "Old Man with a Pen" is an exception, but aren't most stories on SOL written using a computer? Laptop, or some other device that produces electronic information that can be downloaded to the site.
I am going to be 77 in about two weeks. I suspect the author and I are about the same age. I don't think we are "old men". Seniors, I guess, but old is always at least 10 years older than you are. I looked at his blog, found the following. "Another year..I'm going to be 76.
Posted at 1/1/2018, 10:00:41 AM" He might be in his 80s by now. but not very far into them. When I was in my teens I thought 30 was old. Now maybe 90 is old.
Here is something interesting I found online.
"Old" people are getting older. While this might seem obvious, a statistical perspective provides interesting insights into living and working in today's longevity revolution.
Research from John Shoven, a prominent economics professor at Stanford University, suggests that if your chance of dying within the next year is 1 percent or less, you might be considered "middle aged." The chart below shows that the threshold for men transitioning beyond middle age increased from about age 44 in the 1920s to about 60 today.
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JOHN SHOVEN
If your chance of dying within the next year is 2 percent or more, Shoven suggests you might be considered "old." The above chart shows that the threshold age for being considered old for men increased from about 55 in the 1920s to 70 today.
And finally, if your chance of dying within the next year is 4 percent or higher, you might be considered "very old" or "elderly." The above chart shows that this threshold for men increased from about 65 in the 1920s to 76 today.
Note that by these definitions, "old" in the 1920s -- 55 -- is now considered "middle aged" today, and "very old" in the 1920s -- 65 -- is now considered merely "old" today.
Shoven suggests that reduced mortality rates correlate roughly with improved health and vitality at all ages, and can be used as a proxy measure for aging.
Here's the same chart for women:
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JOHN SHOVEN
By these measures, women today transition out of middle age around 65, a number that has increased from the late 40s in the 1920s. "Old" for women today is about 73, which increased from the late 50s in the 1920s. And "very old" today is about 80, an increase from about 67 in the 1920s.
But these are just numbers. How do today's boomers look and feel? It's insightful to compare photos of the boomers' parents and grandparents when they were in their 60s and 70s -- they look a lot older than today's boomers of the same age.
These are the fortunate consequences of the longevity revolution we've been experiencing over the past several decades. It results from virtually universal access to clean water, sanitation, waste removal, electricity, refrigerators and vaccinations, and continued improvement in health care. Many demographers predict longevity will keep lengthening in the decades to come.
However, while we should be dancing in celebration of our longer and healthier lives, instead we're wringing our hands over the significant challenges of an aging society."
So I think we are not "very old".
