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More, Actually started with a fairly simple problem: I was grateful for my life and still wanted more from it. Not necessarily more stuff. More room. More curiosity. More beauty. More desire. More time that felt like mine. More permission to change my mind without turning the life I already had into a mistake.
This is not a reinvention manual. There will be no twelve-step plan for becoming your highest self by Thursday. It’s a place to look at the rules we’ve collected, the roles we got very good at playing, the things we still want, and the occasional door we never actually tried.
If you’re new, start with whichever one makes you feel a little too seen.
Five places we tend to wander
Defining Reads
- 01The ItchFree essay
I’m Grateful for This Life. I Want More, Actually.
The founding tension of More, Actually: a good life, and the inconvenient wish for more from it. Start here if you’ve ever felt ungrateful for wanting.
- 02The ItchFree essay
I Have No Interest in Becoming My Best Self
For anyone who has accidentally turned her entire existence into an improvement project. Start here for the More, Actually argument in miniature: wanting to grow is not the same thing as treating the woman you are now like she’s temporary.
- 03Try the HandleFree essay
Maybe the Door Isn’t Locked. Maybe You’ve Just Never Tried the Handle.
A short skirt, some outdated information, and the deeply inconvenient discovery that a surprising number of our rules may have expired without notifying us.
- 04Field NotesFree essayComing soon
A Highly Incomplete List of Things Nobody Mentioned About Perimenopause
Hot flashes got a publicist. The fucking ears did not. A field report from the bureaucratic hormone nightmare nobody adequately briefed us on.
- 05In CultivationFree essayComing soon
Apparently I’m Supposed to Be Aging Gracefully. I Decline.
On beauty, short skirts, being desired, getting older, and discovering that “age appropriate” contains a suspicious amount of other people’s opinion.
- 06The ItchPreview · Paid essayComing soon
I Don’t Want to Be Needed. I Want to Be Chosen.
For the women whose competence has become part skill, part identity, and part very efficient way to make sure everybody knows exactly who to call when life catches fire.
- 07The ItchPreview · Paid essayComing soon
The Greedy List
On wanting time, pleasure, hobbies, experiences and things without negotiating against the answer before you've heard it.
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