Since turning 60 a couple of years ago, my interest in aging well and happy has ramped up considerably.  For the longest time, I claimed that I was middle-aged and for some ridiculous reason felt that I would stay at that stage of life for decades to come.  But something in me switched at 60 and the midlife label no longer felt true.  The problem was, calling myself a senior or old person didn’t fit either.  Since then I’ve been thinking, talking and writing about the process of aging from all sorts of angles.  Surprisingly, something that is becoming more and more clear to me is that most of us hold a lot of bogus ideas about what aging means.  And while I’m not usually one to use profanity, the term B.S. applies to a number of those erroneously held beliefs.  [Read more…]