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Is it Time for Friend Camp?

I haven't always been a good friend. Over the past several months, evidence for that claim has bubbled up and flashed before me like a haunt from the ghost of friendship past. Fifth grade, in particular, stands out as the time when friendship became an exercise in kill or be killed. The boys got...

Dec 30, 2025 friendship loneliness midlife

5 Things I'm Loving Right Now

I love reading people's favorite thing lists: books, restaurants, skin care, music etc. because they give me ideas I've never thought of. So here's a list of five things I'm into right now that you might like too. 1. Memoirs. I've read four in the last month and I'm not sure why. Here they are b...

Oct 14, 2025 favorites midlife trainings

Build A Longer Table

On one of my now-rare social media scrolls yesterday, I saw something that gave me much hope. Someone, probably several someones, set a blocks-long dinner table in a public space, complete with linens, proper dishes and flowers, then invited folks from the neighborhood to come eat. And they cam...

Oct 07, 2025 community midlife purpose

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before 45.

Midlife has been hands-down the hardest time in my life. Nobody told me it would be this hard either, so I didn't expect it. Now that I'm getting to the other side, here are ten things I wish I'd known before my 45th birthday. You're probably already in perimenopause - which can begin ten year...

Sep 23, 2025 courage midlife perimenopause

Who Cares What They Think?

I'm going to Chicago next week for a conference. I'm flying there, seeing friends, taking Ubers to the best Cannoli and Italian food, shopping downtown and probably drinking a little too much. And that's funny because this morning on a Zoom call, a giant bull moose grazed in the willows behind m...

Sep 09, 2025 courage midlife permission

What's your purpose?

I was at a party over the weekend, talking with a young man who is maybe 24. He's been working a job in sales and is good at it, but it holds no meaning for him and he's antsy about it. It made me think of a recent Pew study that found 95 percent of teens said “having a job or career they enjoy” ...

Sep 02, 2025 faith midlife purpose

Midlife, Foam Rollers & Love.

At the beinning of my midlife deconstruction, I began reading Matthew Kelly, specifically his book The Rhythm of Life. I didn't even know what a midlife deconstruction was then, I was just trying to answer the question: WTF has gone wrong with me? Sure, Sam and I made some huge moves in 2018, li...

Aug 26, 2025 joy midlife perimenopause tools

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