living past your prime
She never tells her age, whereas Lynne flourishes hers. Clock up enough years, she’s in the habit of saying, and you can dance on a table provided you can still clamber up there. You can have sex with the mailman and nobody will care. You can flush away your push-up bras—not literally, you wouldn’t want plumbers involved, asking how the bra got
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How to Be Your Best Despite the Passing Years
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A friend recently wrote "hey, if we haven't figured out our lives by 40, it's still not over!" in response to an article discussing the differences between early bloomers and late bloomers. I wrote back that it's definitely not over. At 40, I had decided I was hopelessly single, and threw myself a big birthday party instead of the wedding I would... See more
A friend recently wrote "hey, if we haven't figured out our lives by 40, it's still not over!" in response to an article discussing the differences between early bloomers and...
The Millennial’s Lament
By River Clegg
June 5, 2024
The Millennial awakens. His alarm has not gone off. He wakes up this early now, naturally. He sighs. He hums the first few notes of “Rolling in the Deep,” a song that he believes came out four years ago. He sighs again.
He walks. I am no longer young, he thinks. Being young was my identity—my whole
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