Reaching the age of 50 is one of those life milestones that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and unsettled.
And perhaps no generation was more traumatized by turning 50 than the forever-young Baby Boomers.
One Boomer faced the half-century mark with the same wry humor that made him one of America’s favorite humor columnists.
The forever-young Dave Barry did what he does best” he wrote about the challenges of reaching the 5-0. His 1998 book was called Dave Barry Turns 50.
Now Dave’s a little older than I am, but I’ve learned from years of interviewing him that we share many of the same experiences – and we’ve both found that Memory Lane can be full of potholes.
So here now, from 1998, Dave Barry.
Dave Barry is 77 now. His most recent book was a novel, Swamp Story, published in 2023.