Here Come the Women
Penny Peters has a summer birthday, but her Grover friends began calling in March. They needed to pin down dates when she would be available for a party. It was, after all, her sixty-fifth.
In June, Peters planned to be in Beijing with Barbara Colwell for a WomenCorporateDirectors event, and then she would race to New Mexico for the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market with another group of Grovers. Peters had neither time nor energy for fanfare, but her pals insisted on a party and she reluctantly agreed. Then she promptly forgot.
When Peters returned from China, she was surprised by voice mails and e-mails from Grovers saying, “See you Tuesday.”
Tuesday turned out to be an assault of New York summer—hot, humid, raining ...
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