“Did I Say That Out Loud?” Is a fun read for post 50 women. You’ll laugh and identify with Kristin van Ogtrop‘s essays about middle age.
, I thought it would make a great read for those in my age bracket. I was also curious because Kristin worked atmagazine, where she ran a $65 million business and led a team of 70 people.who had a 25 year run in the industry. With the changing media landscape and print a dying breed, several years ago Kristin made a decision to leave that world and pursue new adventures.
One of my favorite topics is when Kristin rants about her body parts. “I pass women of all shapes and sizes on the street and I wonder whether their mid-sections bother them as much as mine does,” she writes. I wanted to say – I was changing, but the industry in which I had thrived was changing too. In terms of the latter, it was becoming increasingly impossible to work for a magazine and feel like you were producing something of quality. And in terms of myself and my identity, I just reached a point where I thought: I’m either going to have to keep slogging away at this for another 15 years, feeling increasingly unhappy, or take a leap into the unknown while I can. And so that’s what I did.