Two hours of Ohio cornfields, a kid who finally went quiet, and one question: how do you choose? On college visits, the school I picked wrong at eighteen, and why the perfect choice was never out there.
Menopause content is everywhere and most of us are still going through it alone. On the history our mothers inherited, the doctor who told me to relax, and the one text that starts a real conversation.
I've been rewriting the same five-word text for two days. This one is about overthinking, what it actually costs you (sometimes hours, sometimes years), and learning to tell apart the anxiety that lies to you and the quiet voice that's right.
Six moms, six high school seniors, one last beach week. The conversation I remember wasn't about the kids. It was about us. On dating again, menopause, finding your cheerleaders, and remembering you were a person before you were Mom.