Essays and personal stories from across the six-year Blobs
School phone bans end at the final bell. At home, bedroom phones can keep adolescents connected, alert and awake long after bedtime.
Read more →Marriage joins two definitions of closeness, help, loyalty and privacy. Family tension can become strain between spouses.
Read more →At 58, job loss can disrupt retirement and family plans while the route back to work is already narrower.
Read more →Living with your parents does not make you a child again. The real question is who owns the everyday responsibilities of running the home.
Read more →A familiar voice is no longer proof of identity. One family rule can make emergency scam calls easier to handle without treating anyone like a fool.
Read more →Menopause can turn a small request about working conditions into a worry about your whole career. These are two different conversations.
Read more →Answering with a bare "yeah?" is not bad manners to them, it is efficiency. A look at why an unplanned phone call has come to mean something different across generations.
Read more →Forgetting a name is not proof of decline. A look at the difference between cognitive decline and cognitive change, and what actually helps a brain in its fifties and sixties.
Read more →A compliment about weight loss is not always a compliment. Why body talk feels so confusing right now, and what to say instead.
Read more →When the roles that defined you begin to loosen their grip, something uncomfortable and liberating emerges. One of the least-discussed transitions of midlife.
Read more →It sounds simple. It is not. A personal essay on the strange difficulty of knowing what you want when decades of obligation have shaped your choices.
Read more →A look back at the decision to build a life-stage framework around six-year windows rather than seven, and what the evidence has shown since.
Read more →What does it mean to reinvent a career in your fifties when hiring systems are trained to filter you out? A practical and honest look at the 49–54 Blob.
Read more →The quarter-life crisis is real, documented, and more common than ever. Here is what it actually involves, and what actually helps.
Read more →Leaving home, marriage, parenthood, retirement: the ages at which we reach life's key markers have shifted dramatically. The data tells a fascinating story.
Read more →Everyone has the same 24 hours. A Blobs-lens look at why time feels so different depending on which stage of life you are in right now.
Read more →The age you feel inside turns out to matter enormously for health and wellbeing. And it often has very little to do with how old you actually are.
Read more →The belief that body and mind renew every seven years is scientifically unfounded. A look at whether the 7-year life cycle model still holds up, and why a six-year alternative fits modern life better.
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