The Blur of Growing Up
There is a distinct, quiet grief that comes with getting older.Continue reading on Medium »
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There is a distinct, quiet grief that comes with getting older.Continue reading on Medium »
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...
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...
Life gets tangled when you grow up.Continue reading on Medium »
It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolution...
Sometime in your early thirties, if you were the child who was always a little more serious than everyone else, something strange can happen. The life you built is good. The respon...
The manual everyone assumed someone else had given youContinue reading on Write A Catalyst »
There is a kind of distance that opens up between an adult and their family of origin that does not, in many cases, end in estrangement. The person has changed. The family has not,...
on growing up and becoming someone i barely recognize.Continue reading on Medium »
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....
WHO DO WE WANT TO BE AS WE AGE?I remember reading an article from John Mark Comer that discussed the idea that who we become in our old age is being determined by what we've focuse...
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...
The children of the postwar decades learned to read a room before they learned to read a book, and that early fluency shaped almost everything about how they move through adult lif...
À l’heure où l’âge adulte émerge en pointillé, sans rites de passage ni repères universels, la notion même de maturité se réinvente. The post Quand devient-on vraiment adulte ? app...
What has quietly disappeared from childhood? "Toy Story 5" explores why free play remains one of the most important foundations of healthy development.
On the enduring fantasy of being “just a girl” — and how I finally decided to get a grip and grow up.
I used to think growth meant becoming harder. I thought that if I cared less, trusted less, and expected less, I would be safer. I thought strength meant nothing could touch me. So...
The wellness and self-development industry has, in the last fifteen years, built a substantial business around teaching adults how to tolerate discomfort, sit with difficult feelin...
There is a particular structural experience that most adults in their forties and fifties encounter, on close observation, that the wider cultural register has been considerably sl...
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...
A visit home to China made Grace Cong Sui realize that the parenting habits she'd adopted in the US differed from those she grew up with.
Personal Perspective: What happens when children are expected to suppress their pain and become adults?
There is a generation of Americans, now mostly in their late fifties and early sixties, that came of age inside one of the most concentrated structural changes American family life...
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