Journeying into Old Age

How Woody Guthrie, Billy Bragg, Wilco, and my barber are helping me come to terms with advancing age

Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash

Recently, I was at the barber, and I complained that my hair was turning gray, and without skipping a beat my barber, in a uniquely Singaporean brand of humor replied, “Don’t worry about it. Everyone wants to upgrade (up-gray-ed), and nobody wants to down…