A longitudinal database tracking major life decisions and their real outcomes over time. Ongoing updates, documented by the people who lived it.
We bought 14 acres in central Vermont for $290k and had $220k left after the New Jersey equity. T…
A gay former member came back to collect something from the church building in 2021. Two deacons …
I asked my GP in January 2022 what my realistic timeline was. She said: two to three years of dim…
I spent 35 years as a GP. I have read the NCI data on Gleason 6 progression. The surveillance opt…
My therapist suggested medication for the fourth time in August 2022. The first three times I sai…
Suburban New Jersey. Four bedrooms we used incompletely. $4,800/month mortgage on a house we had bought for the school district. Two children, 8 and 11. Remote work since 2020. …
Born into the church. Worship leader from age 19. Twenty years of the same community, the same Sunday morning, the same framework for understanding everything. My doubts had bee…
38. Single. AMH declining. I had been having a version of the same internal conversation for two years — whether to pursue IVF with donor sperm, whether to wait for a relationsh…
Diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer (Gleason 6, PSA 4.8) at 62. The urologist offered three options: radical prostatectomy, radiotherapy, or active surveillance. The surgic…
Clinical depression since at least 25. Therapy every week. Functional — working, socialising, maintaining — but with a consistent baseline of low-grade suffering I had accepted …
AUD $87,000 in crypto (ETH and BTC) at mid-2021 peak. By October the portfolio had dropped 40% from its high. I had a decision: sell while it was still worth AUD $52,000, or hol…
