Style, Like Wisdom, Gets Better With Age

20.07.2022, 13:17 harpersbazaar.com

When I turned 39 this past March, all sorts of emotions came up for me: excitement, joy, confusion, anxiety. I was sitting on the cusp of 40, an age when I’d always assumed I’d be a published author, married with kids, living in a Brooklyn brownstone bought from the spoils of my success. But my life, while rewarding—thank God I was still kicking post-pandemic—looked so different from the image in my mind. I was mid–book proposal, in a great relationship but nowhere close to marriage; homeownership seemed far off still.