The slower I move, the faster the world changes. Do you ever feel that way? It isn’t that I feel old — at least not most of the time. Well, at least not half the time. Okay, it depends on the day. It’s that I feel so out of date: who are those Academy Award nominees I have never heard of, and what is an influencer — and who are they?

For example, I feel so clueless when I receive a text or email from a younger person — someone under 50 — and it’s sprinkled with mysterious acronyms. I have to look them up on the Internet, or as a last resort, ask my adult children what they mean.