Corinne Langston’s home has a steep, slippery staircase – it’s always caused the kids and visitors trouble. As a senior, she didn’t change a thing – it became a way to get more exercise
“Are you still climbing all those stairs?” The question invariably comes after friends say, “You’re looking good,” tactfully not adding, “for your age.”
There were three flights, one from the main floor bending to the second, a narrow flight to the third-floor attic rooms, and treacherously narrow stairs down to the basement. When we moved in, we had no money for carpets. Or rugs. We scraped. cleaned, waxed and polished the floors and left it to our toddlers in terry-towel jumpsuits to keep the main staircase shiny as they crawled up.
The stairs didn’t loom large in our consciousness. We were younger, livelier and ran up and down many times a day without concern. Though as we grew older, carrying a load of freshly washed linens from the basement to the third floor could be tiring and we’d have to pause to catch our breath on the landings.
We had. And rejected them because they were dust collectors. We preferred a quick swipe of the bare stairs with a mop, possibly unconsciously defying the odds, maybe even enjoying a fillip of danger.
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