Dear Senescent Saints:

I don’t recall exactly when or where I first read these ominous words about aging, but I have thought of them often over the past few years: “Sarcopenia is the age-related progressive loss of muscle mass and strength.” I remember in my forties glossing over the phrase with a blithe sense of confident exemption; after all, at that age I could still carry two boxes of books up several flights of stairs. Even into my fifties, helping our daughter move into a three and a half story walk-up left me winded, but with a deep sense of accomplishment and enough concrete evidence to assure my