midlife

  • How Old is Too Old?

    The other day, I learned that a VA was having a milestone birthday that’s way in my past, and I messaged a smutty colleague: “Tell me I’m not too old to be doing this.”  My bio says that I am GenX, and that identifies me as older than most of the female VAs I’m aware…

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  • Death, Like a Door

    CW: death My dad died today.  If it seems weird to you that I’d be writing a blog post, well, it is, a little. But writing has always been the way I process things, so I’m doing that now.  My dad lived a long life and the last few years were not great for him.…

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  • As Pretty Lynne, I usually write about things when they are going well, or when I’ve got it all figured out. Today is a little bit different.  Most days, I feel great about being a single woman. I am smart and capable and can figure out how to do things I haven’t had to do…

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  • Screenshots

    I should be writing something else right now, but my phone has prompted me to clean out my photos – noting that the number of screenshots is in the thousands – so I started to delete some things.  Doing so was like opening a time capsule of the last few years of my life. I…

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