On affairs and jealousy

          

To defying jealousy!

 Some of you have asked about one of the quotes I feature on the "Womenisms" home page.  It's understandable. Not every octogenarian offers advice like this to her adopted daughters: "…have at least one affair. It builds confidence." Especially when that octogenarian was married to the love of her life, Duncan Miller, for almost sixty passionate years. 

          I've learned, in the process of writing the memoir, that Byrne's advice wasn't literal. Our...