The number 70 is a significant one, yet I don’t feel old. That day I was feeling unseen. My husband and adult children were sweetly sympathetic, but I still felt the same.

“I did something different this year! Absolutely nothing. Saving it for the big 70…2019!!,” she texted. My father died suddenly on my 57th birthday — two months before he would have turned 81.

Happy birthday to Vice President Biden, who turns 70 today. The number 70 is significant for Biden, who has made little secret of his desire to run for president in 2016.. If Biden does run, he ...