I am not fat and really not overweight, but I've gained a few pounds and the weight has, ahem, redistributed itself. Gray hair, sagging jowels. No, I don't feel like a babe anymore. It can be hard to adjust -- Even Germaine Greer, feminist icon from the 1970s, had trouble adjusting and wrote about it in a book published during the 70s. Perhaps called The Change -- can't remember.

It's a struggle in humility, that's for sure.