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Neil Offen has been a humor columnist for four decades and in two countries.

He's the author of Building a Better Boomer as well as more than a dozen other books. During his career, he’s been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a radio journalist. He's also written a nationally syndicated comic strip, and his work has been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil.

He has interviewed Muhammad Ali, covered Apollo 11, ridden on the Orient Express, and once met Cary Grant.

Lauded as “that guy” by The New York Times and hailed as “him,” by National Public Radio, Offen has been named “Un Homme Très Etrange,” the highest honor the French government can bestow on someone who can’t pronounce ratatouille.

Most important, he actually finished first in his age group in a recent 5K.