By Megan Burr A Love Letter to the Middle of My Life
When I was 19, my mom was 39. To me, she seemed like the epitome of an adult. I was…
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By Kristyna Moore 40 Is the Age I Finally Arrive
I’m turning forty in a few short months. Forty. In my younger years, I assumed 40 would be the age…
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By Angela Williams Glenn Midlife Is the Heartbreak You Never Saw Coming
I stood in the airport. Outside the window was the plane that would take me home—a place and a scene…
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By Keri Forsythe-Stephens Catch-42: An Ode to Midlife
The night started in what can only be described as a mother’s paradise. The kids were downstairs—maybe being watched by…
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By Leslie Means If I Can Do It, You Can Do It: Get the Colonoscopy
I have a crappy stomach. (In a moment, you will really appreciate that pun.) For years, foods have caused discomfort.…
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By Mary McConville Midlife Is Remaking Me as a Woman and a Mother
It started like any ordinary weeknight dinner. Except this night, my teenage son sat at the table, head in his…
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By Melissa Steis I Can’t Remember My Kids When They Were Little
I’m 42… or 43? Honestly, I can’t even remember sometimes. Life goes by so fast, and yet at the same…
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By Her View From Home The Women In My Life Have become My Lifeline
In my early 20s, I thought all I ever wanted or needed was a man to love and who loved…
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By Claudia Caramiello This Is 50
I am planning a fabulous party. Campy invitations will be sent out. The food shall be Italian. There will be…
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We Need To Start Talking about Perimenopause and Menopause
This one is for all the ladies out there. The topic that is still so veiled, so mysteriously and globally absent,…
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By Crystal Wilson I’m in My 40s and I’m Utterly Exhausted
It's 2024, and I just turned 41, and I feel like I'm permanently stuck in a hamster wheel. I'm a…
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Hello from the Other Side of 40
Facing 40 birthday candles? Let me tell you why your future is even brighter than those birthday cake flames, but…
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