Recalculating Midlife is where I write a few times a month about a very specific stage of life, the one where you have one foot in youth and one foot in old age. It’s an in-between state of neither here nor there. You’d think that standing between worlds would make us feel expansive or omnipotent, but more often it does the opposite. These essays are an attempt to get oriented, to be honest about the confusion, and to learn how to stand more fully in the here, even when the there remains uncertain.