How to Spend a Perfect Day at Dry Tortugas

The End of a Chapter

I’m standing on the precipice of a new decade: my forties. Foreboding music plays. No, but seriously, turning 40 as a woman is terrifying. Society and the patriarchy have given us these boxes that we’re supposed to check: marriage, kids, a dog, maybe some chickens. Not to mention the pressures of maintaining your 40-something-year-old body…