She Spent Decades Caring for Everyone Else. Then She Bought a Ticket and Sailed Away

her choices.

What Carmen’s Story Reminds Us

So many women who are now in their sixties and seventies were raised inside a particular set of expectations.

That a good mother stays within reach. That a widow redirects her energy toward her family. That a woman who has spent decades giving is somehow obligated to keep giving, even when she has already given continue reading …