Contents Featured A Middle-Aged Widow’s Open Letter to the Man Who Thinks He Wants To Date Her 63-Year-Old Teenager Revisits Her College Application Essay and the Question of Masking Outrunning The Empty Chair Dear Diary, I May Have Misled You Navigating Middle Age in the Bermuda Triangle He Flattered My Intellect and I Paid the Price All That Good Hair The Unbearable Unfairness of Winning A Young Lady of Letters A Lifetime of Parenting Reduced to Four Words Courage Doesn’t Always Roar or Walk Over Hot Coals