Geezer Joy

I know this isn't a suitable, businesslike photo, but I'm old enough to not care. The picture is of the columnist and Patrick, the youngest of his seven grandchildren.

Fred Cicetti

Fred Cicetti is a freelance writer who specializes in health. He has been writing professionally since 1963. Before he began freelancing, he was a reporter, rewriteman and columnist for three daily newspapers in New Jersey: The Newark News, Newark Star-Ledger and Morristown Record. He has written two published novels: Saltwater Taffy—A Summer at the Jersey Shore, and Local Angles—Big News in Small Towns.