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

courageous things a person can do — especially at a stage of life when the world tends to assume your story is already written.

Planning for your own future, protecting your own time, and maintaining your own sense of identity through the transitions that come with later life are not luxuries. They are forms of self-respect.

Carmen did not leave because continue reading …