Tag: decades

Donna found me crying at the kitchen table at 7:14 on a Tuesday morning, about three weeks into retirement, and ...

People will tell you burnout is the villain here. It isn’t. Burnout is what happens when the fire goes out. ...

Most people assume that watching your children surpass you is the whole point of parenthood, and that when it happens ...

I watched my father leave the house at the same time every morning for close to thirty years. Same briefcase, ...

Four months ago, I was sitting on my couch watching some game I can’t even remember now. My son had ...

Looking back, I can see where it started. In my forties, I was working seventy-hour weeks. If a buddy called ...

Ever look in the mirror and wonder who’s staring back at you? I spent most of my twenties doing exactly ...

Doctors have been warning patients about the growing threat of “superbugs” for years. These bacteria no longer respond to existing ...

My friend Gerald, who spent thirty-five years as a hospital administrator, told me something last year that I haven’t been ...

“I think about how worried I was and how little of it mattered.” That was my mother’s answer when I ...