The Best of 28: A 2024 round-up from the first days of being 29

When I graduated from a master’s program at 23, I would send reverent prayers to the person I would be in five years. Please, I would pray, please have this all figured out by then.

In the last five years, I did figure it out. I had my dream job in the right city with the right partner. I wrote a book. Then, by 28, this idealized life shifted, and I pivoted to focus on my writing. I was used to working within an institution that could tell me what to do. On my own, I was basically thrown upside ...