Getting Old: Our Battle Against ‘Father Time’

The desire to remain young is as old as dirt.

Deb Wax
Crow’s Feet
Published in
7 min readJun 3, 2023

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This photo is of a card designed in 1910 by Frances Brundage, which says “Happy New Year”and displays a cartoon of Father Time and Baby New Year.
WikiMedia Commons This media by Frances Brundage. File is in the public domain.

You’re blissfully going about your day when you catch a glimpse of yourself in a mirror. You stop to take a look. Your chin drops, and you’re startled by what you see. You squint to focus your eyes because you don’t want to believe it, but there it is — Life has chiseled a new wrinkle in your old face.

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Deb Wax
Crow’s Feet

A former technical writer, Deb now enjoys writing "two-cent hyperbole."