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My Menossance is about midlife as a season of authorship, where we stop performing the life we were handed and start writing the one we actually want. A space to rethink, reimagine and rewrite our next chapter.
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Silence is Not Enough (opens the original)
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When I started writing on Substack over a year ago, I made myself one promise: that I would only ever share what felt 100% true. Which is why what I am publishing today is not the essay I planned to write.I’d been working on something entirely different when the news began pulling me back toward a piece I published some time ago. Sometimes an idea comes from something I’ve read or a podcast I’ve listened to. Sometimes an essay is born from a conversation or an encounter with someone close to me.
The Other Shoe (opens the original)
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Last week, I had a Zoom coffee date with a dear, old family friend who mentioned something she had read in a book about running that really stuck with me. The book was talking about optimism, and while I don’t remember the exact words, the idea was essentially this: optimism isn’t about being perpetually positive. It isn’t believing that bad things won’t happen or pretending everything is wonderful when it clearly isn’t. It is about not allowing the inevitable hardships of life outweigh our beli
Built in the Ordinary: A Series About Lasting Love (opens the original)
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After I published Built in the Ordinary, an essay about my growing belief that lasting love isn’t built in the grand gestures but in the accumulation of thousands of ordinary moments, I realized I wasn’t quite ready to leave the conversation behind.Writing that piece piqued my curiosity about what love looks like from the inside, after years of actually living it. Not the happily-ever-after version, but the ordinary days, the difficult seasons, the ways we change, and the thousand small choices
Falling (opens the original)
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A few months ago, I started a weekly tradition on Substack of posting a note that features a word that tickles my fancy. One that is both fun to say and also means something that feels directly connected to who I am at this exact moment in time. My “Wednesday Words” have included little lexical gems like effervescence, flâneuse and serendipity. And this past week, “frisson” took a turn. It’s a French word for a sudden thrill or rush of emotion that travels through your body before your brain has
Built in the Ordinary: A Series About Lasting Love (opens the original)
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After I published Built in the Ordinary, an essay about my growing belief that lasting love isn’t built in the grand gestures but in the accumulation of thousands of ordinary moments, I realized I wasn’t quite ready to leave the conversation behind.Writing that piece piqued my curiosity about what love looks like from the inside, after years of actually living it. Not the happily-ever-after version, but the ordinary days, the difficult seasons, the ways we change, and the thousand small choices
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