At 95, I’m a gym rat. I stopped drinking wine a decade ago and eat homegrown food.

Getting enough sleep is another important factor as you age. If I don’t get at least eight hours every night, I don’t feel so good and it makes me lazy.

I go to bed around 8 p.m. and get up at 5 a.m. Old habits die hard. As a boy, I ran a newspaper route, pushing my bike through 3 feet of snow to get to people’s houses.

We tend an orchard and a vegetable garden

As for diet, my wife Lydia, 83, is an excellent cook. We eat Mediterranean style using lots of olive oil. A typical meal will be a dish such as chicken or fish — with the occasional serving of lean beef — served with vegetables and pasta or risotto. Dessert is simple fruit.

We were fortunate to find a house with a lot of land. So I planted an orchard, and Lydia planted a vegetable garden. We grow more than half the food we eat. It’s fresh, all-natural and very tasty.

The crop includes salad, zucchini, green beans, cherries, raspberries, and red currants. We pick them ourselves, which brings joy and a sense of accomplishment.

I used to appreciate fine Italian wines but stopped drinking about 10 years ago. I thought that maybe alcohol at an advanced age is not very good.

But I live life to the full and intend on doing so for many more years.

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