50somethingmag

The performance is over. The real show has just begun.

And oddly? It’s a relief.

— A letter from your 50-something editor 50somethingmag

For the first two acts of adulthood, we are collectors. We collect careers, partners, children, debt, wisdom, scars, and the furniture from IKEA that somehow survived three moves. We are taught that life is an upward escalator—more money, more status, more stuff. Then, somewhere around 52, the escalator stops. The performance is over