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Heather Hopp-Bruce

Heather Hopp-Bruce

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How do you reclaim yourself when your child goes to college?

Distance isn’t even the worst part. It’s time. Where did my little girl go? Where, for that matter, did I go?

17.08.2026 30

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Heather Hopp-Bruce

When a member of your friend group passes away

At our last reunion, we didn’t know it was the last time we would be together. What now?

04.08.2026 30

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Heather Hopp-Bruce

Oh crap, the garden catalogs are here

For poor gardeners like me, they read like an obituary to past plantings.

30.05.2026 40

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Heather Hopp-Bruce

Six reasons Gen Xers need to watch ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’

Your middle-aged self owes it to your much younger self to lighten up and dance a little.

10.10.2025 40

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Heather Hopp-Bruce

The unwashed black shirt

I could have made time to buy a new black shirt in those short days between the news of her death and the wake, but I didn’t believe it was true...

19.07.2025 40

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Heather Hopp-Bruce