I was a sophomore in college on September 11th. I have all sorts of memories of the day—the horror, the sadness, the fear—but what lingers most isn’t only the tragedy, it’s the humanity. When classes […]
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Tender Shifts
Friday carried a tender weight—the close of my parents’ visit left me wrapped in that sweet kind of melancholy, the kind that lingers when you’ve had something so good it’s hard to let go. Later, […]
The Water Bottle
There is no such thing as a perfect parent. I know this, and yet I still spend countless hours worrying that I’m doing something wrong—or worse, that I’m causing some kind of irreversible harm no […]
The Blog is back
The internet is overflowing with empowering messages for women in midlife. Scroll for two minutes and you’ll find slogans about “owning your feelings,” memes that insist you shouldn’t give a damn about anyone else’s opinion, […]
The Forty Files: Doing It All at 43
The strangest thing about getting older? It’s how everyone else around me seems to be aging, while I’m still suspended in this feeling—one I can’t quite name. It’s not an age. It’s not a phase. […]
The Forty Files 