Baby, let's cruise

I’m on a cruise as you read this - I’m writing the day before I leave and will set this to send a few days later (so you, my kind readers, don’t feel abandoned!). It will be my first time on a ship since 2019.

When I first went on a cruise, I was surprised how many of my fellow passengers were not on a special, once-in-a-lifetime trip or celebrating an a…