Where is My Guide Book for This?

Where is My Guide Book for This?
In search of the road map for middle age.
Tara Lingeman
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Sep 19, 2022
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Photo by Kiwihug on UnsplashWhenever I encounter something new in my life, I find a book about it.
When I was experiencing existential angst as a teenager, I read Dostoyevsky and Herman Hesse. When I started experimenting with drugs, I got into the beat poets.
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Written by Tara Lingeman
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Seeker, Lover of Stories, Writer, and Teacher. Author of a memoir about searching and finding and a novel, Salamandra. Find both @ https://linktr.ee/taraling.
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Where is My Guide Book for This?

In search of the road map for middle age.

Written by Tara Lingeman

More from Tara Lingeman and Middle-Pause

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This house Smells like firewood and freedom reminds me of the year I Reclaimed my soul

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More and more, the older I get, it feels like feminism is just another way men waste women’s time

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Older women are sick of experts telling us what we should look like. It’s time to embrace who we are.

Gilded Carriage

You said I must be a witch but It was you, running your warm hands across my sternum, pressing my small wrists between your thumbs, that…

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