When I returned home from a week away, I didn’t expect much to be different.\u00a0 Same husband, same dog, same cat, same house.\u00a0 I knew George would be wearing a different colored shirt and there would be a full basket of dirty clothes in our closet.\u00a0 Maybe a few more spatters on the bathroom mirror.\u00a0 But not much else.<\/p>\n
Yet, something was very different.\u00a0 I noticed it from the minute I saw George at the airport.<\/p>\n
He looked\u2026well\u2026older.<\/p>\n
How is that possible in six days?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n I didn’t plan to mention my observation to him.\u00a0 Most people don’t want to be reminded they’re aging.\u00a0 But I found myself staring at him for several days, wondering how on earth his mustache had turned completely white in only one week’s time.<\/p>\n I finally could hold it in no longer.<\/p>\n “What did you do to your mustache?” I asked.\u00a0 “It’s so\u2026so white!”<\/p>\n He looked at me quizzically, then smiled and said, “I didn’t do anything to my mustache.\u00a0 I did shave my beard off while you were gone.”<\/p>\n Ahhhh\u2026\u2026.that explained it.\u00a0 And also proved to me that my powers of observation were…well\u2026growing old, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I returned home from a week away, I didn’t expect much to be different.\u00a0 Same husband, same dog, same cat, same house.\u00a0 I knew George would be wearing a different colored shirt and there would be a full basket of dirty clothes in our closet.\u00a0 Maybe a few more spatters on the bathroom mirror.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}