How to Age Disgracefully

by Clare Pooley

“Where’s the fun in aging gracefully?” said Daphne. “Personally, I intend to age as disgracefully as possible.”

How could someone so small elicit such huge emotions? A complex tangle of resentment, fear, and confusion, all wrapped up in the most overwhelming, primal love.

How lovely it must be to be an age at which you wanted to add quarters rather than subtract decades.

You just need to take a deep breath, and channel your power.”

You don’t get to our age with a completely unblemished record. Not unless you’ve not lived. The trick is just to try to ensure the balance falls on the side of the good.”