Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

I have interviewed 60 adult children of emotionally difficult parents, and the sadness that kept coming up was not that their parents failed them — it was that they still kept hoping they would change
Adult children who stop sharing good news with their parents are not always bitter — sometimes they are protecting one happy thing from being minimized
Long marriages aren’t always passionate — but some of the steadiest ones may simply be two people who kept choosing ordinary mornings together
The hardest part of having a difficult parent is not always what they did — sometimes it is how normal you became at pretending it did not hurt
Being single at 50 can carry a strange kind of social visibility — you’re somehow both invisible at couples’ dinners and over-discussed at family gatherings