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Brave Heart (opens the original)
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It started like any other Friday night: sweatpants, red wine, a bowl of popcorn with extra butter, and zero plans. My twenty-two-year-old daughter, Ally, came downstairs, sniffing out the popcorn like a bloodhound. She flopped onto the couch, limbs everywhere, and I scooted to make room. We were watching the end of Brave, the Disney movie set in Scotland. At the time, I assumed it was just another princess story. Read more
The Middle Is Where You Can See (opens the original)
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Every woman I know has a whisper network. The doctor who listens. The thing that helped. The friend who tells you the truth about her marriage. Forty Fifty started because we had one and we wanted to build a place where this didn’t live in the shadows anymore. I have spent the past five years building Forty Fifty. What started as a thought, became a conversation, which became something much bigger than we expected.For two years on Substack I’ve written about midlife without ever really telling y
What If (opens the original)
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What if the hot flashes and night sweats have a purpose? Asking for someone who can’t take HRT anymore and is desperate to come to peace with the 1–2 minutes of agony that is a hot flash (that’s 1–2 minutes 5–6 times throughout the day and at various intervals throughout the night). The desire to rip off whatever I’m wearing. The need to get up and escape whatever fiery hell I am confined to. The dread of perspiration at my hairline and forehead, which means any chance of a good hair day is like
Chosen Family, Chosen Summer (opens the original)
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Summer is coming to a close. The saddest line I think, or write, every year… Summer is by far my favorite season, I could write a love letter to her every day of the season. Living on Cape Cod, it is what I look forward to most and can enjoy deeply because of my newish proximity to the water. Being here is a bit of a double-edged sword, as the seasons a… Read more
Strangers to Our Own Lives (opens the original)
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I just got back from ten days in Crete (hence my reprieve from posting, more on that later). I was there with one of my oldest friends, so we spent most of it talking, catching up, giggling. Not much of it reading. The four books I packed went mostly untouched. One bored me enough that I left it behind, half finished. But for the ten-hour flight home I … Read more
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