There is a certain point in your 20s when you become an adult, if you haven’t done so already. Not turning 21, not graduating from school. Some event--an arrest, a disaster, a revelation, getting fired, getting humbled, getting an abortion, or some other legitimate voyage out of your well-traveled comfort zone. Nobody actually told me that when I started my 20s, and I didn’t know it was coming until years after it had passed and…

Here is a completely un-affiliated link to Norman Maclean's masterpiece, Young Men and Fire , a book that is deeper and kinder and better than most of the books we have created as a society, and one that can be re-read every year of your life.