Cynthia Hall

For a long time, I carried around this quiet belief that my story was basically done — that the important decisions had already been made somewhere in my twenties or thirties, and everything after that was just living out the plot. Then, on some completely ordinary day, I realized that wasn't true at all. Nobody had actually finished writing it. I had just stopped picking up the pen. There's a strange belief we settle into as we get older — that by a certain point, who we are has already been...

I’ve had this conversation with myself more times than I’d like to admit: Why am I so tired? For a long time, my answer was just: I’m just getting older; I'm in the thick of hormonal changes; of course I’m tired. Of course my brain feels slower some days. I filed it under “things I can’t control” and moved on with my coffee in hand. Here’s the part that makes this a little embarrassing: I should have known better. I worked in healthcare for over 20 years, and one of my main jobs was keeping...

There’s a power that comes from aging. And if you’re not mindful, you will miss it. Some people like to throw the phrase “act your age” around to try to put you in your place. A place that the world says you should be. Unseen. But I’m here to tell you, there’s power in that place, and unbecoming is the only way to find it. What “Act Your Age” Really Means Let’s be honest about what that phrase actually means when someone says it to a woman. It rarely means “be more mature.” It means: be...