“In the same way you were so sure that moms somehow had their lives together behind the scenes, you also thought age and experience would guide you toward the career goals that had proved elusive thus far. Right after becoming a mom at 48, you felt like a fire had been lit in you to Get Things Done. Maybe being so much older than your mom was when she had you at 26 made you think about mortality and the waning number of years you likely had left, or maybe because free time each day was so much more precious, you went for it without your usual overthinking, launching a writing conference and, recently, a podcast, ventures that had previously seemed like pie-in-the-sky wishes.” - Rachel Kramer Bussel in Oldster Magazine’s “Letter to My Younger Self” series.