⭐ 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 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 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: 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...
Micro Essay: Reinventing Yourself at 50 and Beyond December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl Reinvention isn’t a crisis — it’s an opportunityOne day, you wake up and realize half your life was lived doing what you had to do.Now comes the part where you...
⭐ Micro Essay: What No One Tells You About the Second Prime December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl No one warns you that the second half of life isn’t a slow fade — it’s a plot twist.Nobody tells you that your senses sharpen, your tolerance for nonsense drops...
⭐ Micro-Essay: Aging Boldly Instead of Quietly December 02, 2025Susan Lehmkuhl There comes a point in life when you stop shrinking to fit into expectations that were never meant for you.Somewhere around 50, something shifts.Not all at once, and not loudly...