In which Grandma and I have to spend 10 hours in the ER only to learn she is totally fine — shocking for an 88-year-old with cancer plus severe emphysema, heart disease, and osteoporosis — and I share the time-killing supplies I’m used to packing for such moments to help prepare her for an inevitable (if not continually delayed) end.

Grandma is listening to David Sedaris’s “Father Time.” MUCH more to come about that and the many other elder-oriented essays in his book Happy Go Lucky.