AdvertisementLate middle age? She’s young — flip — young — flip — young — flip — and just like that, she was the Nana I knew. AdvertisementNobody I know thinks of themselves as “late middle age” because the phrase signals the end of an era, like late antiquity or late modernism. It says you aren’t old old, but you’re in the vicinity. That’s why I wish there were a phrase to describe this phase in life that’s less doleful than “late middle age.”