It’s Nifty To Be Fifty

Michael Thorn
4 min readMay 5, 2021

But I don’t wannabe seventy

Photo by Shane on Unsplash

I’ve just submitted a short (very short, 4-second) video birthday greeting online to a friend and one time work colleague who turns 50 this month. It’s for a montage that her husband is preparing as a surprise.

It’s hard to credit the computation that tells me it’s nearly 30 years since we worked together. But there we go — she was barely into her twenties then and now…

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