I recently joined the club and will start having Old Age Security money deposited into my bank account this month. I take some offence to the words Old Age. I can live with the security part and hope to have it for the rest of my days. I hope you will as well. 

Maybe our prime minister, whether it be Justin Trudeau or Andrew Scheer, can look into the old-age thing and make it more palatable. I suspect increasing the country’s debt will take precedent over an old guy with hurt feelings.

I feel much the same as I did when I was 45. There have been physical changes to be sure. There is a pot where there used to be a half-pack of abs and my glasses have changed. My hair is much greyer than it is in this photo. I am not sure if my hair is receding, or if my forehead is getting longer.

I am waiting for someone to say, “Why the long face, Cam?” Humour writers overuse that line. In the old days, it was often used in columns about John Kerry and Mark Messier.

Writers often make ear jokes about Prince Charles. He does have the elephant thing happening, but old teacups is first in line to the throne. The first-in-line-tothe-throne line makes me think of lineups in front of Porta Potties. I was at an event with Porta Potties recently and was struck by the fact that the rich and poor pee together. It was touching.

This column is really straying and my mind is wandering to some crazy places.

I was at a Tim Hortons not all that long ago when a woman recognized me. It must have helped her that I was carrying a copy of the Your Saskatoon News, another paper published by the fine group that does this magazine. 

“Your hair is much greyer,” she said, “and you look older than you do in your picture.” Despite her accurate analysis of my head, I don’t feel my age. To be honest, I haven’t noticed much change between 45, as I mentioned, and 65. I can’t think of anything I could do 20 years ago that I can’t do now. There are things I can’t do with the same proficiency, but they are still doable.

As I have been writing this, I was trying to think of words that would suitably replace old. A person between 60 and 69 is a sexagenarian. Maybe people my age could get Sexagenarian Security. It sounds kinky though.

THIS EDITION of Living 55 Plus is extra special. It is much thicker than previous ones because of a partnership this paper has with the Saskatoon Council on Aging. 

The section devoted to their fine work is 21 pages long. I’m thinking it would take an encyclopedia to properly cover everything the council does for older adults in our community.

(Note: Older adults is the name the council uses for people in my/our age range. Maybe Older Adult Security is even better than Sexagenarian Security.) Please check out the Saskatoon Council on Aging section, take out a membership and enjoy the many programming options.

-Cam Hutchinson