Archive - Midlife Anti-Hero

Fool's Spring: the mud season of midlife

#22 Why can't I stop shoulding all over myself. (But first, there's something I should tell you.)

Mar 7

February 2024

Sorry I didn't write. I would have, but I didn't want to.

My life wizard described a world without external distractions where I could float freely as if in a bubble. I pictured the kind you blow from a tiny…

Feb 27

A wabi-sabi Valentine story

#20 Imperfection worth fighting for

Feb 14

It’s Tuesday. Am I trending?

#19 It's not the size of my audience, it's the magic in it.

Feb 7

January 2024

Revisiting the definition of midlife crisis

#18 How Taylor Swift and these 5 Substack authors rewrote a tale as old as time

Jan 30

Adding this one item to the top of my to-do list changed everything

Making a plan and planning to fail

Jan 28

#17 Have times changed for women since my high school typing class? Have I?

Jan 23

The difference between apathy, ignorance, and ambivalence

#16 I don't care, I don't know, one way or the other

Jan 16

My second-grade self has some advice

#15 Stop pooping on your parade

Jan 9

The best way to avoid crushing waves of self-doubt

#14 Get out of the break zone

Jan 3

Welcome to the Midlife Anti-Hero Community

Reinvention, resilience, and rebellion for women in the middle of their lives.

Jan 1

December 2023

Not ludicrously capacious or seemingly ranch

#13 Let go of what might have been

Dec 31, 2023

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