At 3:38 in the afternoon, Gordon Yeager died in an Iowa hospital. He was 94 years old. His wife, Norma, lay in the bed beside him. They had both been badly injured in a car…

There’s a moment in life that sneaks up on you. I don’t know exactly when it happened to me, but I know it did. Somehwere around turning fifty -give or take it hit me: I…