Too Old for This

by Samantha Downing

That might be the real secret to life. Stop trying to clean up everybody else’s mess, and concentrate on your own.

There’s something about the ceremony of death that brings out my tears. I think it’s because of how funerals end. Everyone walks out and continues with their day as if nothing happened. That seems sadder than the death.

people can’t keep secrets. All you have to do is shut up long enough for them to talk.

Is anyone ever ready to ask their children for help? I bet not. I bet every parent avoids that conversation until they’re incapable of having it.