Alison Lumbatis

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Favorites.

The essays I come back to. The ones readers write me about most. If you're new here, start on this shelf.

An open journal and a warm mug of coffee on a sunlit side porch table, morning light through green leaves.
Rediscovering Me

Welcome

A welcome from Alison - on coming back to writing, coming home to myself, and the quiet question of who I am now.

July 15, 2026

A woman standing quietly at a bedroom mirror in soft morning light.
Rediscovering Me

The morning I decided to get dressed

It wasn't about clothes. It was the smallest possible act of remembering myself.

June 18, 2026

A neatly edited capsule wardrobe on wooden hangers.
Style

A capsule wardrobe for the woman you are now

Not the woman you were at 28. The one who walked through the door this morning.

June 4, 2026

A warm mug and a journal on a bedside table at dawn.
Living Well

What no one told me about perimenopause

The body changes. The conversation, finally, is changing too.

May 8, 2026