thanks everyone! great to hear from you! Now... since it seems that around this time of life everything starts falling apart, does anyone have any ideas how to cope with it? Are there ways of dealing with marriage breakdown, kids leaving home and not contacting, living alone or in unsuitable lodgings, no money or job, dreadful prospects in job market, aching body and shocking news on the TV all the time? I try to keep busy, am going to college to try to get some kind of job, eat healthy (unless I am depressed then it is microwaved battered fish and wine)(which is happening a lot lately). But, I keep coming up against - is this worth it? At this point in time, I feel my best life is behind me. What is there to come?