My Year of Giving Up

365 days of whatever.

Photo by tripleMdesignz on Unsplash

“Here’s to dying on a ranch together!” This was the last line in a birthday card my friend M sent me this week. The card had a kitten on it barfing up a rainbow, and it made me happy because it confirmed that I’m not the only woman of a certain age freaking out, staring down the barrel of the last decades of her life outside the norm of a nuclear family, whatever that’s supposed to look…