How to Deal With Getting Older (When You Still Feel Like You)
I got my own Medicare card this year. Not a parent’s. Not a spouse’s. Mine. I laminated it before I even used it once. Here’s the thing nobody tells you about how to deal with…
Lessons From The Past
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Going Back to Your Childhood Home: What I Found After 50 Years
I’ve been playing a game with myself for as long as I can remember. I try to picture a place, down to the smallest detail, every wall, every room. If I can’t remember something, was…
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What Growing Up on a Farm in the 1970s Taught Me
I can smell bullshit from a mile away. I mean that literally, and it turns out, figuratively too. That particular talent traces straight back to growing up on a farm in the 1970s, and by…
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Feeling Invisible: I Walked to the Pool and Nobody Looked Up
Am I the only one who feels invisible sometimes? Like you move through your whole life, people all around you, and somehow they just don’t see you. Don’t notice you. You kind of blend into…
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Scared But Doing It Anyway: I Lived in Hawaii 4 Years and the Ocean Scared Me the Whole Time
Long before pools and lazy rivers and any of this channel, there was Hawaii. I lived there for four years in my thirties, not a vacation, an actual chapter of my life with an apartment…
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Finding My Biological Father After 57 Years of Family Secrets
I want to ask you something before I tell you this one. Do you have any secrets you keep? Does your family have one, the kind nobody’s allowed to talk about, the kind that just…
