She Was at the Top of Her Career. Then She Started Over.

A reflection on Gaby Moreno's new form of ambition that every Midlifer can relate to.

I still remember the first time I knew I could be a writer. I was 14 or 15, and my Spanish teacher had us read an entire novel for each test, with ONE question to fill up a small libreta. Her very well-justified obsession with Luis Rafael Sánchez had me wanting to tell stories as if there were no mañana. Those small notebooks she gave us became my vesse…