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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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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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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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You Can Do Everything 'Right' and Still Outgrow the Life You Built
Some lives don’t break apart all at once in a 'midlife crisis;' they just start to feel a little too small to breathe freely. What if that discomfort is…
Apr 6
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Miranda Miller
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Frida Kahlo Was Bored. That’s Where Everything Changed.
What if boredom isn’t a problem to solve, but a signal to pay attention to? A short reflection on Frida Kahlo, stillness, and what might be waiting for…
Mar 30
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Miranda Miller
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Opening One New Door Could Change Everything — Just Ask Shireen Eddleblute
A former Wall Street portfolio manager didn’t burn it all down in midlife. She opened one new door, and it led her to building something sustainable…
Mar 23
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Miranda Miller
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Joy Behar Had a Good, Stable Life. It Just Wasn’t the Right One.
She spent years teaching high school before stepping onto a comedy stage at 40. Joy Behar's story is a reminder that midlife often begins with letting…
Mar 16
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Miranda Miller
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