Is This It?
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4 min readSep 3, 2021
A GenX Mid-life Crisis Rant
“You’re so brave,” she says. She waves her cell phone, pointing at my most recent Instagram post. My daughter had snapped the photo — sand clinging to my hair and sticking to my cheeks, my midriff exposed — a captured moment of joy with family and friends.
Apparently, it takes courage to look like me.
