At a certain age, many of us turn to the obituaries after scanning the front page of our daily newspaper. Since I m going to be 91 later this year, I m deep into this morbid habit, but I recently discovered the perfect antidote.
Parental divorces lead to oddities.
Most likely divorce of the parents may be divined from their current residences, usually one up North and the other down South. Occasionally this history gets out of hand. An intriguing part of this pursuit is what it tells me about the current employment of the happy couples. Many couples are in graduate school. Or she is employed by a stockbroker, he by a bank.