Tag: midlife crisis

I Said I’d Age Gracefully…But

I was nine years old when I read about facelifts for the first time in a Reader’s Digest “Big Book of Everything”. The accompanying photo was a gory close-up of the surgery in progress but there was also a before-and-after shot of Molly Parkin, who’d had a full facelift and admitted...

Coming undone

“Midlife is not a crisis.  Midlife is an unravelling”. Brene Brown When Brene Brown used those words in her brilliant 2018 blog on the myth of the midlife crisis, they spoke to me in a powerful, personal way.  Midlife IS an unravelling.  Brene’s words are powerful and true, and...