Age: It's all relative

I felt old when I learned that Brooke Shields, the Pretty Baby from The Blue Lagoon, is 40 years old today.

But I felt younger when I discovered that Clint Eastwood, one of my boyhood heroes, is 75 today.

And I wasn't sure how I felt when I did the math and realized that Clint is five years older than my mother, who turns 70 today.

Happy birthday, Mom! (And Clint and Brooke too, though I confess that I didn't get either of them so much as a card.)