Don’t let old age be wasted on the old. Sometimes I feel smarter than I was 30-something years ago. I don’t remember how to do Algebra or how to diagram a sentence, but I can read several newspaper articles about seemingly disparate issues and immediately see how they are connected. Like David Foster Wallace on […]
I had the guts to help myself and I’m finding a way through this, to the place where I don’t lose my shit when my kids lose their shoes. In life, I try to strike a balance between transparency and over-sharing. Motherhood is a blessing and a joy but it’s messy and scary, too. Life is […]
I don’t need a lot of friends, but I need a few who have genuine personal depth and will let me see it. I think I’m getting ruminative in my menopausal fugue—solidly on the other side of divorce, career reinvention, and starting over in a new place with a new love. I have almost all […]
While 30- and 40-something moms were having it out with their daughters over makeup and risque dresses, my mom was going through menopause. When I was 10 years old, my mother aged an entire decade in one night. It remains one of the single most shocking episodes of my childhood—which was really very tame, I […]
