growing old gracefully.....

ok, so i picked up my new glasses after working the day in stanford and shopping the aldi....and before driving back to mercer county to present a short program on eating well to feel one's best at the weekly meeting of a black women's walking group .....and as it happens the last meeting was cancelled because of a hs track meet...but the cancellation was not posted on the door of the meeting place.......and when folks showed up this evening an altercation ensued............that is a making nice way to describe an embarassing place for the mm to be on the job.....i come from a family that never, ever battled in public or in private....what we had to say to each other went totally unsaid....so i have no experience dealing with discord of any kind in public....let alone in the meeting room of my workplace........these women were......not nice...to each other....buy managed to rally for me to speak for 45 minutes with at least 30 more minutes of questions and comments....at which the woman who was the most vile in her earlier attar asked everyone if she didn't look her age..........yeah...i know attar isn't the right word.....but i am too old for this madness.............