Getting old not for sissies

YVONNE CONWAY | Olympia • Published December 03, 2012 Modified December 02, 2012

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Y ou know you are “getting up there” when you start reading the obituaries. It is another milestone of life. I just discovered another milestone. I need my reading glasses and a magnifying glass to read today’s birth and death announcements. How sad.

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