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50 Books Before 50

I’ve always loved disappearing into a good book, but I’ll confess: during the pandemic, my attention span packed its bags and left. (Relatable?) And to be fair, we were writing books of our own, and as it turns out ……

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Medium Is the New Merry

If you’ve listened to this week’s Laugh Lines, you know I am entering my Bare Minimum Holiday Era — and honestly, it feels amazing. For years, I’ve crash-landed into Christmas on two wheels, crying on Christmas Eve because I was…

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7 Reasons Aging Is Actually Awesome

There was a time when I thought “getting older” meant giving things up — energy, youth, collagen in my neck. (Okay, I do miss that last one.) But lately, I’ve realized something wild: I wouldn’t go back to my twenties…

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Bring It Back or Pass?

If you fell for the Columbia House Records scam and got collection notices… you’re in the right place. You remember the one… “10 CDs for 99 cents!” A deal that felt too good to be true because well, it was.…

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Embracing Moments That Remind Us We’re Getting Older

Even though we are all aware we are getting older, there are times in life where you really feel it. Maybe it’s when you pull your back reaching for a cup of coffee. Or you get up to turn off…

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50 Books I Plan To Read This Year

I turn 50 next year and before the big day, I’ve set some pretty lofty goals for myself. Among them: Reading 50 books in this calendar year, mastering a pull-up, and walking 10,000 steps a day. I am no closer…

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I’m In My Birding Era

Hobbies when you become middle-aged are fascinating. They come on strong and suddenly without warning. It’s like we all spun a wheel, landed on something like genealogy, quilting, or gardening and that became our entire personality. (We actually made a…

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These Opinions Are Wild (And We Love You For Them)

You know those random, slightly unhinged opinions you have that make zero sense to other people — but you will defend them with your whole chest, no matter what? We call that “the hill you’ll die on.” Let’s get my…

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10 Wild Things About The 90s

When I think back to life in the 90s, I realize that we used to live life on the edge. Remember when your parents just… let you go places? Alone? With other 14-year-olds? Without a cell phone or any parental…

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The Best Part About Getting Older

Do you know how you know you’re getting older? For Penn Holderness, it’s getting excited about really very basic things. Like keeping a photo on your phone of the best parking job you ever did to pull up at the…

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