The Boutique Owner Told Me to Stay Quiet Before I Heard Something I Was Not Meant to Hear

and the wisdom is in knowing where the limit is and being willing to stand at it when you reach it, even in a green beaded dress with scratchy arms and a purse full of evidence in a parking lot across from a police station while your daughter taps on your window and tells you not to make this a problem.

I was seventy-two years old in that parking lot.continue reading …