Magnifying You

Answer to a reader who wrote in that they are going through a rough time:

Big sigh. I’m sorry for what has happened to you. For some reason I’m hearing too much of this same kind of news from all sorts of people — friends and readers — these days. I guess once you cross the 40 year old line it shouldn’t be surprising (although I crossed that line decades ago), but it is.

Someone recently told me that out of the blue their beloved husband died. She’s about your age and asked what should she do n...