If Growing Old Is a Journey, Where's the Nearest U-Turn?

Not long ago I flipped through the pages of an in-flight publication while waiting for my plane to load. I couldn't help but notice the variety of anti-aging advertisements. There were devices to tighten sagging facial muscles, vitamins that promised youthful energy and wrist bands that guaranteed to make you pain-free from arthritis. By the time the plane left the runway, my mind had wandered to something that had happened a few years back when I was visiting my mother at her senior residence...Full Story