HUMANS 101

How to Be Excited About Growing Older

Being a twirtysomething is a strange but illuminating thing

The author on her birthday

I’d been warned as a teenager that growing older was a scam. “Being an adult,” Meredith Grey began, “TOTALLY OVERRATED.” In the first season of Grey’s Anatomy, she told me:

Seriously, don’t be fooled by the hot shoes and great sex…