How Forty Became The New Twenty

July / August, 2012

Why do men in their 40s still act like kids?grew up to be even less of a man than I thought I would. I don't go to an office. I don't wear a suit. I don't go to see the philharmonic, smoke a pipe or wear pajamas. I have not read one book about the Civil War. Instead of disciplining my son, I explain why his misbehavior won't get him ahead in the world. My son is two. What I didn't figure on, however, was that the rest of my generation would mature even less than I did.I am 40 and I am regularly...