As we watch parents grow old and die, children grow up, career plans and personal goals suddenly reveal themselves to be unreached and unreachable, she writes, "the anxiety of mounting loss can feel tidal: it floods in and over you, then gnaws away at your sense of self, sucking out your life force". For this journey, "The Middlepause" suggests, it's good to have a few guides.
Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty I should be writing this in a mood of mounting excitement - adrenal gland pumping, palms clammy, every other relevant faculty kicking into gear.
About 20percentt of the district's registered Republicans voted, an impressive number considering the difficulty of mounting a write-in campaign.
Would-be candidates still have the option of mounting a write-in challenge to Feuer or other city incumbents.
Perhaps they cannot resist the temptation of mounting an operation that would sound really daring if it was written up in the media.
There are several methods of mounting.
The sharpest political humor has a sell-by date that has long since passed by the time the process of writing and mounting a play has come to fruition.
"Such mummies," he wrote of his mounted birds, "have their uses, but later I came to see that life, not death, would solve all riddles; that an examination of the dead was merely a preliminary to a study of the living, and that it was more essential to preserve the living than the dead".
All along, he was writing songs and mounting periodic readings of his work-in-progress.
Taut writing, escalating murders, mounting tension, plenty of forensic jargon, and quips and camaraderie (or not) among her recurring characters are all present and accounted for.
