Voices
Why Adult Female Friendships Can Be So Hard to Maintain
Most close relationships come with something that holds them in place. A marriage has a certificate and a shared address, a family has history and holidays...
Grace Morgan
Published stories
Stories by Grace Morgan
Voices
Voices
What It Really Means for Women to Support Women
A sentence that ended up printed on a Starbucks cup began its life as a private joke between diplomats. Madeleine Albright said she first used the line alm...
Voices
What If Your Dream Changed
Somewhere in a drawer, a notes app, or an old journal, most of us have a version of the plan we made when we were younger. It might say we would own a rest...
Essays
There Is More Than One Way to Be Successful
Most of us inherit a definition of success before we ever get to choose one. It arrives through a parent's expectations, a school's rankings, a s...
Essays
When Your Life Looks Fine but Doesn't Feel Right
My friend Kate described it to me as the sweater problem. She had a sweater she loved for eleven years, and then one autumn she put it on and it was wrong....
Essays
9 Things to Leave Behind Before the Year Ends
My mother used to clean out the linen closet in the fall. Not the whole house, and never in spring the way the expression promises. Just that one closet, s...
Essays
The Grief No One Prepares Women For
There is a photograph on the wall in my hallway of a woman I no longer recognize. She is thirty-two years old. She is standing at a kitchen counter, laughi...
Features
What Happens When the Family Caregiver Is Done
Eileen Marston had been caring for her mother for nine years when she stopped, and the stopping did not look the way she had imagined it would when she had...
Essays
The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About
My friend and I stopped speaking on a Tuesday in October. There was no fight. There was no final conversation. There was a text I did not answer in the way...