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When Are You Going to Settle Down?
I did settle down. There's a house, a village, people I've known forty years. I just don't sit in it every week, and apparently that's the part people…
Jul 27
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Miranda Miller
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Growing a Beautiful Life, One French Castle Garden at a Time
Meet Jen, the Chateau Gardener. She left a marriage that was erasing her for the cocoon of a Normandy coliving, and has grown into head gardener at a…
Jul 20
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Miranda Miller
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You Will Never Know Enough to Be Ready. Emma Gatewood Went Anyway.
At 67, Emma Gatewood walked the Appalachian Trail on a lark. This is a story about acting on incomplete information, and what happens when your intel…
Jul 13
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Miranda Miller
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What's the Thing You'd Do Whether Anyone Noticed or Not?
Carmen Herrera painted for seventy years before anyone bought a single canvas. Here's what she understood about doing the work without the payoff.
Jul 6
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Miranda Miller
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Who Are You Out There on Your Own?
Nine days from Hawaii, alone in the Pacific, Kelsey Pfendler is mourning the person she got to be out there. You don't have to row an ocean to…
Jun 29
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Miranda Miller
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Why Are We Still Marching Toward Someone Else's Finish Line?
At 70, Leonard Cohen found out his manager had emptied his retirement savings. At 73, he went back on the road out of necessity, and gave the last…
Jun 22
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Miranda Miller
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Your Barely-Holding-It-Together Years Weren't Wasted. They Might Be Your Best Material.
By 60, Penelope Fitzgerald had outlasted an alcoholic marriage, raised kids on a sinking barge, and set her own work aside to survive. The next twenty…
Jun 8
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Miranda Miller
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The People Who Leave Have Always Been Right About Something
The headlines call it an exodus. The historical record calls it something else: a pattern, and one the people who lived it rarely came to regret.
Jun 1
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Miranda Miller
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The Thing You Wanted at 22 May Have Been Waiting for This Version of You to Show Up
Most stories about Diana Nyad's swim focus on persistence. The more interesting one is about what those thirty years were doing. A story about the…
May 25
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Miranda Miller
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How Joan Didion Worked Her Way Through the Messy Middle
Joan Didion was 69 when her husband died at the dinner table. She started a notebook nine months later. What she modeled wasn't reinvention... it was…
May 4
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Miranda Miller
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When Outward Success Isn’t Enough: Viola Davis and the Midlife Reckoning
Viola Davis had the accolades, the recognition, the moment... but says she still felt empty inside. This is a story about redefining what success looks…
Apr 20
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Miranda Miller
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Helen Mirren on the Freedom of Not Explaining Yourself
Even at the height of her career, Helen Mirren felt like she had something to prove. Here’s what changed, and why it matters.
Apr 13
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Miranda Miller
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