Introducing a New Sunday Series: Ancient Wisdom

For the next few months, The Free Press will be publishing an essay every Sunday written by someone 70 years old or older. (Jörg Schmitt/picture alliance via Getty Images)
How to find late-life romance. How to deal with fading looks. How to know when to pack it in at work. If you're lucky, you're going to get old. What's the best way to do it? 10 writers discuss.
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Every six months for the last few years, I’ve been getting an MRI scan of my brain. There is a little dot in my left frontal lobe—”subcortical white matter,” my chart says, that “may represent a chronic microhemorrhage perennial.” Which, I admit, sounds pretty bad.
The dot was discovered after I had an incident in which I blacked out while walking home f…
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