How's the Weather?

By Courtney Pierce





The late-great David Bowie had the best advice for
weathering tough times: Turn and face the
strain. I’ve sung that line from Changes
a hundred—maybe
even a thousand—times in my fifty-nine years. Like many other baby boomers,
I’ve lost a job or two, lost family members, and lost a husband (not by death, but a
loss nonetheless). Any one of those derailments of life is