Flailing Upward

What other choice do we have?

Good lord, we’re already halfway through the year! My half-birthday falls in June, and I take it seriously. Time is moving faster, and there’s only so much diem left to carpe. Remember how when we were kids, we used to define our age this way: “I'm five and a half!” I still do that, at least in my mind. I’m fifty one and a half, and it’s time to take st…