Consider what happens, over the course of ten years, to the average person’s range of decisions. At 58, they are choosing what to work on,
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There is a particular kind of Sunday lunch, in households that love their older relatives, where the older relative is at the table for the
Picture someone who hits their fifties without a single person to ring when the bottom drops out of their life. You probably picture the difficult
If you grew up in a home where someone’s mood could shift the atmosphere of every room, you learned something early that most children never
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The question came from a therapist I had been seeing for several months, and it was not a complicated question. She asked what I enjoyed
There is a moment many parents describe, usually quietly and often with some embarrassment: the recognition, mid-argument or mid-silence, that they are doing something their
There is a particular conversation that often happens between adult children in their 40s or 50s and their parents in their 70s, usually accidentally, often
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The 1973 OAPEC oil embargo cut American gasoline supplies by roughly 25 percent in six weeks, producing hours-long lines at filling stations and a Nixon-era request to lower thermostats to 68 degrees. The habits formed that winter, smaller cars, insulated attics, cooler houses, reshaped American homes for the next fifty years.