The timing of this thread and the question posed is interesting. Just yesterday I came across a 1985 newspaper item about a proposed layoff in our agency. There is a large picture of yours truly and I have a very dark head of hair but also a grey beard.
I think the gray on my head really got started about the time I met some of you on the old SBCnet around 1988. For some years I described my hair a pepper and salt as Trudy starting in 1993 progressed through a B.A. an M.Div, and a second masters it became more frosty it is now more salt than pepper and I wish it would just go ahead and get white. But at least, 2months short of my 81st birth day, I still have a full head of hair.
We have a bright enthusiastic young new pastor. She had to fly back home to do a memorial service for a family member. A friend of hers from seminary who has recently been ordained and is now a chaplain at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance preached in her place yesterday. I looked at our new pianist who is in grad school, and the "coach" for the praise team who is also a seminarian and realized that I have children older than ALL of them. When did this happen? Now I realize why am so stiff when I first get up in the morning. I really and truly achieved one of my goals in life, to be an old lady. 
