I love that the cast just reunited for the first time to discuss “The Breakfast Club” and its enduring meaning to each generation. I also love that a song can just transport us back decades and conjure up emotion !
I am a sucker for the midlife female coming-of-age story. I think Liz Gilbert put it on the map with Eat, Pray, Love, and there's a healthy, growing genre emerging now. I really love this reframing of the Breakfast Club archetypes into powerful and mature midlife heroines. That resonates a lot – the Breakfast Club is one of my favorite movies, also, and I have also written about John Hughes' magical intuition about coming-of-age on my own substack. So, synergy! Signed, A former brain, princess, criminal, basketcase, and athlete, now a wildly creative sovereign strategist breaking rules for good reasons, while reclaiming health for a body that has needed so much more care than it has gotten, for so long.
Ahhhh, yes! I write middle aged female protagonists and coming-into-age journeys starring midlife heroines not as secondary or tertiary characters, but as the main event! My novel Her Story So Far is launching May 1st and I think you might really love it! You can find it wherever you love to buy books!
I am reading this with energy and awe, because I am so ready to write myself into a new future. I turn 49 tomorrow. I’ve left a 20-year career in an attempt to “solve for joy.” I feel stuck now in the identity crisis. What actually matters to me? Thank you for shining a light on the road ahead.
Yes! I wrote a piece about this way of thinking where I likened it to "giving birth during menopause" where we are actually "rebirthing" ourselves. I believe our generation is rewiring the thinking about this time of life.
Hmmm. I loved TBC. However, I didn’t quite fit any category. I was creative and smart but the identity I was cast in most by authorities was the villain. I was fine with that. I was a straight A student most of the time — who almost didn’t graduate because I skipped out on so much school senior year. I did attempt to behave pretty damn well throughout my life— but now I’m exploring alternatives. 😏 I’m still cast as the villain, and even more okay with it now than then as it helped whittled down the old Christmas list, but I’m really inhabiting the creative more and more.
Love this. I feel like someone took over my body. I am 56 now and passed the 2 year mark from mention. I feel like with it all I transformed in a positive way. There was a catalyst or a few in my case.
I was/am The Brain. And I have performed well all these years. But menopause has given me brain fog and diminished recall. I’m exhausted by 5pm after thinking all day. I even blasted a co-worker this week for not using his own brain, “I can’t think for everyone!” I’m trying to figure out how to be value added if I can’t always be the one who has all the answers. I’ve considered retiring early to try something new, but the security and stability of a job I’ve done, and done well, for 30+ years is hard to give up.
I love that the cast just reunited for the first time to discuss “The Breakfast Club” and its enduring meaning to each generation. I also love that a song can just transport us back decades and conjure up emotion !
I saw that they just reunited. I must watch it!
I am a sucker for the midlife female coming-of-age story. I think Liz Gilbert put it on the map with Eat, Pray, Love, and there's a healthy, growing genre emerging now. I really love this reframing of the Breakfast Club archetypes into powerful and mature midlife heroines. That resonates a lot – the Breakfast Club is one of my favorite movies, also, and I have also written about John Hughes' magical intuition about coming-of-age on my own substack. So, synergy! Signed, A former brain, princess, criminal, basketcase, and athlete, now a wildly creative sovereign strategist breaking rules for good reasons, while reclaiming health for a body that has needed so much more care than it has gotten, for so long.
He does have a magical intuition doesn't he? Wow, you lived through every teenage archetype! Which was your most prominent?
Brain, for sure. With artist in retrograde.
Reverse for me!
Ahhhh, yes! I write middle aged female protagonists and coming-into-age journeys starring midlife heroines not as secondary or tertiary characters, but as the main event! My novel Her Story So Far is launching May 1st and I think you might really love it! You can find it wherever you love to buy books!
I love the thought that hot flashes are surges of energy.
Trying to trick myself into enjoying them. Lol
Fantastic! This hit me right in my soul.
Thank you. I really needed to read this.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Kristin. It was so fun to write!
I bet it was.
I am reading this with energy and awe, because I am so ready to write myself into a new future. I turn 49 tomorrow. I’ve left a 20-year career in an attempt to “solve for joy.” I feel stuck now in the identity crisis. What actually matters to me? Thank you for shining a light on the road ahead.
Oh, Stacey I know exactly where you're at. Been there, done that. You are hearing the Call to Adventure and are about to have a fabulous journey. 🤗
Yes! I wrote a piece about this way of thinking where I likened it to "giving birth during menopause" where we are actually "rebirthing" ourselves. I believe our generation is rewiring the thinking about this time of life.
I like it, Leslie. Our generation is the first to even talk about it publicly, so it will be fascinating to see how things change.
Hmmm. I loved TBC. However, I didn’t quite fit any category. I was creative and smart but the identity I was cast in most by authorities was the villain. I was fine with that. I was a straight A student most of the time — who almost didn’t graduate because I skipped out on so much school senior year. I did attempt to behave pretty damn well throughout my life— but now I’m exploring alternatives. 😏 I’m still cast as the villain, and even more okay with it now than then as it helped whittled down the old Christmas list, but I’m really inhabiting the creative more and more.
Love this. I feel like someone took over my body. I am 56 now and passed the 2 year mark from mention. I feel like with it all I transformed in a positive way. There was a catalyst or a few in my case.
I was/am The Brain. And I have performed well all these years. But menopause has given me brain fog and diminished recall. I’m exhausted by 5pm after thinking all day. I even blasted a co-worker this week for not using his own brain, “I can’t think for everyone!” I’m trying to figure out how to be value added if I can’t always be the one who has all the answers. I’ve considered retiring early to try something new, but the security and stability of a job I’ve done, and done well, for 30+ years is hard to give up.