anecdotage

Someone has wittily said that only those in their anecdotage should tell stories.

I thought my anecdotage scarcely worthy of so much honour; but I promised to make a weekly experiment in the Manchester Guardian.

Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

In these years of Old Kennebec's "anecdotage," his pipe was his best listener and his truest confidant.