Re-nai-ssance.” I agree with that! I mean, winter is dark, and the pandemic feels unending, and regular life has major ups and downs, but I’m 42 and just feel, I don’t know, like myself right now. I’d love to rebrand some version of that where you started having, like, a, I don’t know, a midlife discovery or breakthrough. Like everyone likes to say, she/he’s having a midlife crisis. I was just saying to a friend of mine the other day, there should be another term besides like midlife crisis. On a podcast recently, comedian/writer/actress Amy Poehler, who is 50, said: “I’m just digging this time. And with social media - like Succession parodies and McSweeney’s posts - it feels like everyone is discussing culture all the time, and I’m here for it. these days are so good, and I feel energized by that. And by “inspired,” I really mean that TV shows, movies, books, podcasts, etc. These days, I’d instead say: “writer, friend, mother, walker, inspired.” First, I got really into walking over the past few years and treasure my daily neighborhood strolls so much. What would your words be? When I first posted about this quote seven years ago, my kids were toddlers, and my words were “writer, friend, mother, sleepy, loving.” Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.” I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. When I was, I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. “We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. The other day, I was thinking about this funny quote from Nora Ephron:
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