Like Sophia

Waiting for the Next Thing to Go Missing

On faith, superstition, and the small ways I keep testing whether the universe is listening

18 hrs ago • Toni Albertson

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La Famiglia Is Everything. Attendance May Vary.

Who has to die for us all to have a meal together?

Oct 10 • Toni Albertson

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Dear Women My Age: Leave Madonna Alone

She won seven VMAs at 68, and the meanest critics aren't Gen Z. They're us.

Oct 2 • Toni Albertson

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September 2026

Still Hanging On, Literally and Otherwise

Not everyone gets a friendship that outlives who they used to be. We did.

Sep 25 • Toni Albertson

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Mortality at 2 a.m.

Arriving by coach, to the discount bin in the sky.

Sep 18 • Toni Albertson

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Welcome to the Only Marriage Test that Works

Skip the therapist. Just check the floor.

Sep 11 • Toni Albertson

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I Don't Lower My Expectations, I Raise the Roof

Fourteen family members, a rainstorm, a cheese wheel that never showed up, a mouse that did, and a lifetime of proof that I never learn.

Sep 4 • Toni Albertson

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August 2026

This Rocker Chick Refuses to Believe Her Own Birthday

Somebody check the math. This can't be right.

Aug 28 • Toni Albertson

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Hunting Season

Let’s call them what they are: Emotional Predators, Love Bombers, Opportunists.

Aug 21 • Toni Albertson

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What If It All Works Out?

50 Things to Hold Onto When It's Hard to Hold On

Aug 14 • Toni Albertson

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The Seven-Year-Old Sunday Activities Director

Decades later, I still can't survive a day without an agenda, a clipboard, and a bottle of Wite-Out.

Aug 7 • Toni Albertson

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July 2026

Zip It. Gracefully.

A lifetime of lessons, and the one still in progress: knowing when to say nothing.

Jul 31 • Toni Albertson

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