What's got my attention this week #52
52! Yes, there have been 52 entire weeks of links and recs to get you through the weekend.
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• J-Lo is getting it in the neck (again) for being “too ambitious”. (When did anyone ever say that about a man?) But the question shouldn’t be “are you ambitious?” it should be what are you ambitious for? Love this by
• Five years ago when I wrote The Shift… Ten years ago when I went through perimeno… I could never have envisaged this happening: menopause is fuelling a movement.
• Cyndi Lauper is 70 and back on the road.
• Pushing 50 and still fucking up?
• Lovely piece on “manless climbing” and the wonderful Dorothy Pilley by .
• Are we doomed? (Cheery, huh?)
• Life as an abortion doulla.
• on what she knew at 60.
• “I don’t have kids, but that doesn’t make me less of a woman.” Well said . £
• “I still speak to him most days, even though he’s 28 years gone.” My friend Lee wrote this decades ago, but it’s just as relevant today.
• DGAF about being liked.
• Brooke Shields is having a moment. (She also keeps her mum’s ashes …