Well, yesterday was my birthday. It was also the birthday of great standup comic Paula Poundstone, renowned actress Mary Tyler Moore, TV hunk Ted Danson, and great (faux southerner) actor Jon Voight. I turned 40. Jack Benny was 39 till he died at age 80. I really don't get it. As you get older, you (hopefully) get smarter. Even if you don't get smarter, you get more experienced. Who would want to say "Well, I'm young, pretty, maybe even smart, but I'm far too young to really know very much compared to what I'll know in 20 years.". Someone very wise once said "The older I get, the more I find out I don't know".

I'm happy to be 40. 40 is NOT the new 30. Comic great Elayne Boosler decided, at one point in her career to be in denial about her age. Way back when she said "I'm not 37...I'm twenty-seventeen". Ugh. I didn't mind my twenties. I had a sugar daddy (okay, a sweet and low Daddy) whom I probably couldn't get today...because he's dead now.

Obviously being 20 something has its merits. But being 40-something is much better when you're trying to run a business. I don't have any mentors who are twenty. I'm pretty sure all my mentors are older than me. Maybe there's something to that. Getting smarter will never be out of fashion.