This will be the last week that I do these Coffeetalk commentaries as I am mostly retiring on August 31st.  I say mostly because I will continue to host the Sunday Sockhop on 98 Cool and Vic’s Country Classics Sunday afternoons on CJWW.  I did my first Coffeetalk on CJWW in 1997 and added them to what was Magic 98.3 FM, now 98Cool, in 2001.  Back in 2007 I remember I talked about how I would define growing old and I believed then and still do that you grow old when you lose your curiosity, when you no longer care what is around the next corner or over the next hill, when you are satisfied knowing just what you know now. That’s when you begin to get old.  Remember when they said 60 was the new 40?  The “they” saying that were baby boomers of course, one of which I am.  There’s no real consensus on what “middle age” is but it’s generally defined as between 40-45 and 65-70.   Tradition has it that a “senior citizen” is someone over 65 but you tell me.  Back in 2007 I said the day would be coming when the outdated mandatory retirement age of 65 would be gone and I was right. It had disappeared in most provinces and federally regulated workplaces by 2012.   Anyway, here in 2025 we baby boomers are aging as gracefully as we can.  You can’t stop time.  There’s an old saying, you’re only young once, which begs the question, how many time are you old?