Midlife: It’s not a crisis, OK?

I flirted briefly with the idea that I’ve been having a midlife crisis. It began in June 2008 when, on my first day of unemployment, I took part of my severance and bought a lipstick-red Honda Civic coupe with sunroof and 5-speed manual transmission. As midlife crises go, this was pretty tame.  I didn’t buy a BMW [...]