being in your twenties is overrated

My editor friend Amy came down from Canada for a visit. She brought along some photos of me she took in Japan when we were there over a decade ago. I tend to avoid having my picture taken. I don't have many of them around.

"You had such a baby face!" Amy declared.

In one picture I'm vamping for the camera, with a mock pout and bold, straight-on gaze, and my hair is long and all one length and still its natural brown. I'm not wearing makeup (I didn't touch the stuff in those days, barely do ...