Never Too Old to Dream

I'm forty years old. I'm working for hourly wages, and I have no husband to support me. I'm too old to go back to school--I'd be almost fifty when I started a new career! I'm sober, but I still resent alcohol ruining my life!" This declaration was made by an attractive, articulate woman, at the end of an out-of-town meeting that my husband and I were attending on one of our adventures across the country.