"A recent study by researchers at Harvard shows as people grow older they tend to stick to old beliefs and find it difficult to accept conflicting information about topics they are already familiar with. The findings seem to suggest you can't teach an old dog new tricks." From a link by Ed T.

I don't find this to be true at all. The older I get - I'll be 77 this year- the more frequently I find myself questioning my conclusions.

One of them: After something happened, I used to wonder if I saw it coming and sometimes thought that, yes, perhaps I did, that there might have been a aura about the person that had clued me in.

But all I have to do to realize otherwise is to look around and acknowledge that I haven't the faintest idea of what is going to happen today or tomorrow or whenever. Except death. I am fairly convinced that we all someday must die.

Incidentally, I love learning new tricks.