Fifty

I Googled "midlife crisis," and you know what came up?

View from the Swinging Bridge in Yosemite. January 2024.

In a few short months, I turn fifty. Fifty! What kind of sorcery is this? I remember when I got my first office job in 2001, my boss, Chuck, had just turned fifty. He seemed like such a grown-up! I remember thinking I would never be that grown up. Of course, I was wonderfully right about that.

I am …