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midlife

Motherwell talks to best-selling author Ada Calhoun

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Ada Calhoun gives a voice to middle-age struggles—and empowers a generation of women who were raised to “have it all.”

March 30, 2020 Books, Culture

It’s possible to stay too long at the fair

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These words by Joan Didion summed up my twenties, but they also capture the predicament of my current midlife crisis. By Elizabeth Newdom

May 20, 2019 Parenting Challenges

36 life decisions I don’t regret, even now

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To throw away the cigarettes, and choose to run instead. To stop running when my hips hurt, and walk instead. By Kathleen Harris

February 21, 2018 Culture

Listening to other people’s teens

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The chance to remember myself at that age, in a way that I often don’t when I wrangle with my own teens, was illuminating.
By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

June 20, 2016 Family
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