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The Adulting Checklist No One Gives You After Graduation

Graduating can feel like crossing a finish line, until you realize there is an entirely new race waiting for you. One minute you are turning in assignments, studying for finals, an...

The Reality of Adulting According to Cats

Growing up was a trap, wasn't it?Becoming an adult seemed a lot more exciting before it actually happened. Somewhere along the way, weekends stopped being about sleeping in and sta...

The Adulting Win Nobody Talks About (But Everyone Should Pursue)

For years, I chased the next paycheck. A quieter, smarter game — building real financial stability — went unplayed until it was overdue. There was a version of my adult life that l...

Ready to Start Adulting? Take These 11 Steps to Retire the Right Way

Adulting is hard, but if you follow these points, retirement can be easier.

‘When did you realise you were grown up?’ – 17 moments when people felt the grim reality of adulthood kick in for good

According to the law, you’re an adult the minute you turn 18. However it often takes a lot longer for that message to sink in. That’s because even though you’re paying adult fares...

Painfully Relatable Memes About Being An Adult

Nobody arrives at adulthood having figured it out, they just get better at delivering the lines with less visible panic,...

Something tends to arrive in your mid-thirties. You are in a meeting, or filling out a form, or standing in the hardware store trying to identify a type of screw, and you become su...

Admin dates lighten daily tasks

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Life tasks like paying bills, canceling subscriptions and answering overdue emails are becoming a reason to socialize for friends, couples, roommates and other p...

Here’s Your Reminder To Take A Break

When you become an adult, it seems like it’s taken so long to get there. After years of wishing to be older, boom, there you are, and with that comes responsibilities. There are th...

Things That Make Lubbock Adults Feel Like They Have Their Life Together

In Lubbock, it seems that adulthood is more about the little victories than grand achievements. Clean sheets and dinner plans say a lot about us. Continue reading…

Why Your Twenties Feel So Expensive Right Now

Your twenties are supposed to be fun, right? At least, that’s what everyone tells you. They’re supposed to be the years where you go out, make mistakes, travel, fall in love, find...

Things I Wish I’d Done in My 20s

Your 20s are often described as the decade where you are supposed to “figure things out,” but most people are improvising far more than they admit. Some are building careers, other...

The Blur of Growing Up

There is a distinct, quiet grief that comes with getting older.Continue reading on Medium »

‘Not Suitable for Work’ Understands Why Being in Your Twenties Is So Hard

Not Suitable for Work captures the messy reality of adulting in your twenties with humor and heart

On being a mom of adults

Recently, two readers wrote me with similar questions. Here's one: Have you ever done a post about empty nest? My kids are 23, 21 and 20. My youngest is at home but is moving to th...

How to Be Twenty-Something (I Think)

Notes from the messy, beautiful process of becoming, growing up without a manual, and learning to live with the questions.Continue reading on Intersectionality »

There is a version of growing up where you keep waiting to become the finished person who finally knows what they are do...

There is a version of growing up that a lot of people carry around without quite examining it. In this version, adulthood is not a permanent condition but a destination: somewhere...

A new kind of date makes personal to-do lists a reason to get together with friends

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Life tasks like paying bills, canceling subscriptions and answering overdue emails are becoming a reason to socialize for friends, couples, roommates and other p...

I Thought I Escaped Math. Then I Became An Adult

From salary to step counts, here’s how my life turned into a game of numbersContinue reading on Pen With Paper »

“Adulting” resources at the click of a button through LifeLaunch Missouri (LISTEN)

LifeLaunch Missouri offers a resources tab on its website that assists youth in the challenge of becoming an adult. Grace Chapel, EPC Missouri youth and family liaison, joins Camer...

Life Gets Uncomfortable When You’re Growing

Lately, life has not been as easy as I would expect it to be. I felt like I was right where I was meant to be for a while, but now it feels like I am uncomfortable with where I am....

Why Are Kids Growing Up So Fast?

Did you ever argue with your mom about wearing makeup to school? Or a certain low-cut top? When was the socially appropriate age to wear dangly earrings or a push-up bra? Begging f...

What Childhood Lessons Can You Never Give Up?

The other day, I was lounging in bed, watching back-to-back Good Hang With Amy Poehler episode clips, as one does. During her interview with Tom Holland, the British actor admitted...

Why becoming an adult now looks nothing like it did for Baby Boomers

Ever listen to your parents describe buying a house in their twenties, supporting a family on one income, or walking into a job that turned into a lifelong career—and wonder if the...