Last week, I posted an article on “The Midlife Millennial”–an homage (or so I intended) to a generation that has been much maligned of late. In the article, I defended the generation as being one of the most idealistic, creative,… Read More ›
Midlife
The Midlife Millennial
Millennials get a lot of crap. If you believed everything you read, they’re lazy, entitled, beard-growing, ping-pong playing, little snots with their heads in the clouds. This may be true. But it’s just so easy to slam a whole generation… Read More ›
Midlife Hack: Self-help books
So I’ve been trying to find the perfect midlife book. Why? Because reading is how I midlife crisis, okay? Right, so . . . Where was I? Yes, the perfect midlife book. I could just end this post now and… Read More ›
Midlife Hack: Self-Help Books
So I’ve been trying to find the perfect midlife book. Why? Because reading is how I midlife crisis, okay? Right, so . . . Where was I? Yes, the perfect midlife book. I could just end this post now… Read More ›
Midlife Crisis: A Revisionist Story
The way we think about midlife is broken. No, really. I hate these end-of-the-road, time-to-pack-it-in, tropes about midlife, and I know you do, too. The dirty little secret that no one will tell you about midlife (no, not even your… Read More ›
Midlife Hack: Insomnia
This is not a post about recalcitrant chin hairs. Nor is it a post about the middle-aged spread. It’s about something far more urgent, far more important. Insomnia! Now I know my children are probably laughing their heads off going,… Read More ›
I have counted the pages
I will have enough if I keep to my three-a-day But what if Paris is just too big to fit neatly between the margins the boulevards so wide the bookshelves so crammed with volumes and volumes of artists and painters… Read More ›
Still Life with Bread Crumbs ~ Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen is like an urban Marilyn Robinson. She draws a small life using simple language (just more words per minute) that makes you want to linger rather than rush through to the end. I know when I sit down… Read More ›