⭐ 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 Art of Protecting Your Peace December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl After 50, peace becomes priceless—and you finally understand why. You know exactly who drains you.Who exhausts you.Who takes without giving.Who brings chaos disguised as charm.Who mistakes your empathy for weakness....
⭐ 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 Beauty of Not Having It Figured Out December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl There’s a strange freedom that arrives after 50.Not knowing your next chapter no longer feels like failure—it feels like possibility. Life blows up the plan.Relationships shift.Work changes.Dreams evolve. And suddenly…...
⭐ Micro Essay: When Your Body Becomes a Teacher December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl At some point, your body stops whispering and starts teaching. Heart flutters.Chronic fatigue.A doctor raising an eyebrow at your blood pressure.A cough that refuses to be ignored. It feels like...
⭐ 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...
⭐ Micro Essay: The Strength You Didn’t Know You’d Need December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl No one warns you that your fifties might come with plot twists you never auditioned for—parents fading, hearts breaking, bodies glitching, and responsibilities shifting overnight.It’s the kind of strength-building season...
⭐ Micro Essay: Do the Math December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl When people ask why you’re changing your life, your habits, your circle, your boundaries, your priorities…Just do the math. You have lived through too much to settle.You have survived too...
⭐ Micro Essay: Choose You December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Choosing yourself isn’t selfish — it’s overdue.For decades, you chose peace, caregiving, compromise, relationships, responsibilities, and survival. But choosing yourself means: saying no without guiltsaying yes without hesitationresting without apologydreaming...