1 Family Photo:Last week, my dad turned twice my age. It's an odd milestone. When someone turns twice your age, you are as old as they were on the day you were born. For that day, your birth marks the midpoint of their life. Why don't we have a word for this? I propose we call them Doubledays. Doubledays are like birthdays, but extraordinary. Birthdays are individual holidays celebrated once every year. Doubledays are joint holidays that can only occur once in your shared lifetime with another person. You can calculate Doubledays in excel:
Having crossed our Doubleday, I'm now living the ages of my father that I've known. I've been five-years-old, ten-years-old, twenty-years-old, but I didn't know my dad when he was 5 or 10 or 20. I only started existing once he was in his thirties. Is there some age-related insight about this man I've known my whole life that I will finally appreciate? Some perspective on early fatherhood or father time that will now make sense? -- Calvin and Lawrence's Doubleday with each other was at the beginning of last year. We missed celebrating it. Doubledays can happen quite early in life if you're close in age with someone. My Doubledays with Calvin and Lawrence will be in the 2050s. I hope I'll be there to see them. 1 Dad Joke:
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On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist by Noah Smith
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce by Tom Wolfe (1983)
DoubleDay Calculator Template
I made a Doubleday calculator template. What are your Doubledays?
(note: the sample birthdates are not for me and my dad).
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