The Emergent Self

Questioning what we're told it means to be human

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Longer essays and arguments on how we become who we are: through humiliation and recognition, belief and doubt, loss and meaning.

Older woman standing in an open doorway, looking out from a cozy room onto sunlit countryside — starting over later in life

Starting Over Later in Life: Why We Never Stop Becoming

We tend to think becoming happens early, and that after middle age we just maintain what we have. My retired friends prove otherwise.