Don’t You Dare Tell Me I’m Too Old

Especially since I’m seventy-five

Me and Ben and Jerry’s on the Portuguese Riviera, c. 2023, Linda Moran

I went to Europe for the first time in October this year. My last overseas trip was in 1978 to China before normalization of political relations with the United States. It was an amazing experience for this history girl, as was Europe. Coming slowly out of the fog of my husband’s death after 45 years of marriage, I suddenly found myself wanting to…