Exploring the Untold Stories of Midlife Intimacy: A Bold New Anthology Challenges Taboos
One of my favorite stories comes from Sari Botton, publisher of Oldster Magazine. In her essay “Naturally…A Girl,” she explores the feeling of not fitting in, of always being a tad out of step with her peers in passing through various life stages and reaching certain seminal milestones. Botton explores these out-of-sync phases — too late with her period, too early to adulthood after her parents’ divorce forces her into caretaker and homemaker roles, not drawn to motherhood like her peers, early to menopause after a medically necessary hysterectomy — with a focused attention and deep self-inquiry that eventually gets to what she sees as the heart of the matter. Her explorations lead her to embrace her off-script, out-of-step, to-hell-with-timelines essence, living a life of art, friends, marriage, and deep curiosity about the human condition.
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