⭐ Micro-Essay: The Magic of Becoming Your Own Safe Place December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl There comes a moment in midlife when you stop searching for someone to rescue you.You stop waiting for someone else to soothe the ache, explain the heartbreak, or solve the...
⭐ Micro-Essay: When Life Forces a Reset December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Sometimes the universe doesn’t nudge—it shoves.It hands you a diagnosis, or a heartbreak, or an ending you never saw coming.It rearranges your world without warning, without permission. And suddenly, you’re...
⭐ Micro Essay: The Courage of Being Seen Again December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl After heartbreak, loss, or divorce, stepping back into the world requires a kind of courage no one talks about. You’re carrying history now—grief, growth, lessons, scars.You’re not the same person...
⭐ Micro Essay: The Myth of “Too Late” December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl If “too late” were real, people wouldn’t discover soulmates at 88.They wouldn’t launch businesses after retirement.They wouldn’t write their first book at 63 or travel solo for the first time...
⭐ Micro Essay: What Happens When You Choose Yourself December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Choosing yourself sounds empowering—until you do it.Then you realize it’s equal parts liberation and loss. You lose people.Let’s be honest.The moment you stop over-giving, stop absorbing everyone’s pain, stop saying...
⭐ Micro Essay: The Slow Burn of Healing December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Healing after 50 isn’t dramatic.It’s rarely a breakthrough moment or a cinematic epiphany.It’s the slow, stubborn burn—the way one morning you wake up and notice your chest doesn’t tighten quite...
⭐ Why Life Gets More Magical After 50 December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Magick sneaks back into your life sometime after 50 — not the glittery kind, but the quiet, soul-level kind.The kind that shows up as a sunrise you actually pause for,...