Role Reboot

Why ‘Participation Trophies’ Matter: Everyone Needs To Feel Validated

Without recognition for the daily effort we’re putting in, what kind of reward can most of us look forward to? My daughter is practicing her somersaults. She doesn’t quite have it down yet: she crouches, tucks her head, then rolls onto her side and giggles. “You’re working hard on that,” I observe. “I’m proud of […]

Your 20s Are For Trying On New Identities

I know the internet is teeming with trite blogs about your 20s: words neatly condensed into bullet points and numbered lists to relate to the masses. I can’t relate. “‘Your desultory 20s,’ my mother calls my lost time, trying to make it sound reasonable and fun, but it started before I was 20 and lasted much […]