Once in a while, we do something that marks a “before” and “after.” This list, for me, was one of those things. The defeated, desperate, broken person I was at the beginning is far from the determined, risk-taking, brave person who I became by number 50. Completing the list was scary, recording...

So much of my life has been spent worrying about what other people think. I stressed over what people would think of how I was dressed, my hair, my makeup, my weight, my shoes, whether the colors I was wearing suited my complexion. I made myself as invisible as possible. Stepping out and doing my...

When something is scary, we avert or close our eyes. We don’t watch. We don’t look at it. We close our eyes and wait for it to be over, right? So when I found out that what I feared most was about to be shown on a large screen in front of me, my first instinct was to close my eyes and wait for...