I had been her first accident, or so it seemed to everyone but my parents. It just didn’t seem logical to anyone of sound mind that two people rapidly degenerating through middle age down a […]

I think I just realized why all this middle-aged in your 30s nonsense bothers me so much. Ostensibly, I work in marketing now, and demographic lines must be drawn. Sure, there's squabbling between generational cutoffs […]

“With middle-aged women, it gets easier to put it on and harder to take it off.” Sucks to be Betty Draper. All she wants is diet pills to lose her Bugles-and-hot-fudge-sundae-induced double chin and instead […]

Elegant middle aged woman with her arms crossed against white Irritated middleaged woman changing channels Middle Aged Woman Eating Fresh Fruit Salad and smiling Middle aged woman in creative thought with coworkers in the background […]

"Later, during a time when there was no room in her thoughts for anything but remorseless obsessive recollection, a perverse desire to debase the tenderness she had felt for him led her to insist to […]

Yes, 30 Something Grandmas, the reality show. That is all.

"I write as candidly as possible about my decades-long struggle with mental illness, about sex and relationships, and about the difficulties of being a middle-aged poet with a lousy publication record. It’s really not a […]

I should’ve known that the middle-ages, or rather the midlife crisis, has been the subject of scientific study. Really, though, there’s nothing surprising about college kids thinking 35 is old. When I was in college […]