It Started When A Woman Walked Into A Bar On A Cruise Ship

about being eighty, about having lived through so much—wars and peace, technological revolutions, social upheavals, personal triumphs and tragedies.

She thought about her joke, about holding liquor versus holding water, and she smiled.

Because that was the truth of aging, wasn’t it? You learned what you could control and what you couldn’t. You learned continue reading …