In our Transitions section, we explore life’s inevitable changes and the challenges that come with loss, upheaval, and uncertainty. Here you’ll find honest conversations about grief, mental health, family dynamics, and finding stability when everything feels unstable – support for navigating the difficult passages we all face.
What’s the normal thing you’ve never been able to do that you still think about?
Not the yacht. Not the mansion. I’m talking about the ordinary thing that many people take for granted. The thing that would make your everyday life different in some quiet way.
Have you ever loved someone, tried your best, stayed loyal—and still watched them leave because you couldn’t give them what they needed? Sometimes what people genuinely need doesn’t match what you can genuinely provide—no matter how much you both care.
Death keeps showing up in life’s later chapters. What if it isn’t the end? Thousands of people who’ve actually died describe leaving their bodies and finding something waiting. Maybe we don’t need to be so scared.
Well-meaning friends say I’ll “find the right woman.” But the pressure to pursue romance has lifted, and I don’t miss it. I feel relieved for no longer being in a game I never particularly enjoyed playing.
How about you? Are you a player?
Not necessarily romantic breakups or family estrangements—but the friendships that ended and you’re still not entirely sure why. What friendship loss do you still carry? This is your space to share that story and drop it below.
Last week, walking past a shop window, I glimpsed someone I didn’t immediately recognize—gray-haired, lined, slightly stooped. It took a second to realize I was looking at myself. That stranger looked older than the person I see each morning.
Welcome to OldDogZeroTricks, a place for honest conversations about life’s challenges and the stuff we don’t usually say out loud. This isn’t a place for guru wisdom. It’s where we can drop the performance and get real.
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This is our first guest post from a woman, and Tomoko’s story embodies everything this community stands for—raw honesty on life’s challenges. At 58, she’s spent five years navigating breast cancer, from a diagnosis that came with no warning signs to learning that “survival” really…
Do you ever feel like you love your family but operate on a completely different frequency? A photo from McDonald’s—my sister and 85-year-old father sharing junk food—stayed with me in an unexpected way. I could see the effects of time and caring for everything alone since Mum..
We all break sometimes. Relationships end, dreams dissolve, and futures change in ways we never planned. If you’re feeling shattered by someone’s leaving, by someone’s choice to build their life elsewhere, you’re not alone. Sometimes being broken is proof that what you had was real.