I'm told that a lot.
It might be the long hair most guys in their 60s don't have ... which I say is a shade of brown like it was when I was 30 but is really some indescribable hue definitely not included in the Crayola 64 colors Big Box set.
Having a hot wife 2 decades my junior certainly throws people off who're thinking, "No way a Babe like that's married to an old relic so he's gotta be younger than I think."
I mostly hang out with kids, or people who act like them, so it could be guilt by association. All of my time is spent with aforementioned young, hot wife ... three teenage daughters ... and a bunch of musicians.
Spending virtually no time whatsoever with real adults ... aforementioned young, hot wife being the exception ... I can see how many believe I'm younger than I am.
Of course it could be our baby.
Most men my age don't spend almost every waken moment with a 20 month old ... but I do.
We hang out ... stroll the beach ... gets free suckers and drinks ... talk to Garret and the gang renting Beach Umbrellas by the Pier ... visit Tennessee and Evelyn at the Bait Shop ... tell tourists where's the Lighthouse ... recommend the best Seafood ... build sandcastles ... swim in the Ocean ... work on our tans.
On my rare time alone, I practice guitar, pretend I can sing, write songs for aforementioned young, hot wife and act like a rock star on Tuesday's at Monty Parks Acoustic Jam and Sunday's at Bar Church.
It's a pretty adolescent way to live but ... that's my life.
Apparently it makes many believe I'm younger.
I turn 62 today.
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe I'd be this old.
Logic's defied I'm here.
"You want to sleep in or take a nap this afternoon?" Sarah sweetly asks as Che calls for us before the sun's and we're cuddled in bed.
"A nap, of course," spoken like an old person.
I feel the same as I always have ... except I've got a gut because I stopped running ... and it takes me longer to get up after I get down to play with Che ... but otherwise I feel great.
While I've lived a lot of lives up to this point, I'm in no way finished as Sarah and I plan reshuffling our deck to make new journeys, find more enjoyable time together and leave behind things passed.
"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now," goes the song about back pages.
"We've only just begun," goes another one, "sharing horizons that are new to us."
Today Sarah insists taking time to celebrate the fact I'm here as friends from the past and present send good wishes but it's this year I'm looking forward to most.
Everything before was merely a prelude to now.
This is us now staring at new horizons, hungry to arrive before we've taken a step, confident in how much better everything is and in wonderment of everything coming our way.
I hope your day is every bit as good as mine!
