By Steven Aitchison

I love journeys.  The way they challenge us, make us feel alive and stretch our boundaries.  I still remember the tremendous freedom I felt when as a boy of 14, I set out on my first bicycle tour of England.  My parents had given me a new bike with proper racing handlebars.  It was a mighty proud young fellow who set out from his South London home one day, and pedalled to Devon and Cornwall, staying at youth hostels

Recently I’ve been on another kind of journey, creating a course on “happy aging.“  As the world’s “oldest, newest blogger” — to quote my friend Steve Atchison — at 79, I’ve felt a deep urge to share my experience that aging is not something to be afraid... More...