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Sink? Swim? Tread water? — Jump in the deep end.
I’m not much of a swimmer. Those who tried to teach me gave up. My first husband said if ever I was in trouble in the water, he’d swim the other way for fear I’d drag him under. That episode didn’t raise my confidence.
But I can’t think of a better analogy for what I’ve been doing the last three or four or five years than treading water.
All my life I’ve had a premonition that I would live half of forever, not unrealistic given the history of the women in my family, most of whom lived into their nineties and longer. But l...
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