Welcome to Mera Magazine

Relatable essays, interviews, advice, and more from midlife.

Hello!

Alexis here. I’m the founder, writer, and editor behind Mera Magazine, a women’s lifestyle website and newsletter featuring raw, honest, and funny essays, interviews, advice, and more fun stuff from and for women in midlife!

I’m not here to be your mom, mentor, or life coach.

Think of me as your fun gal pal — the one who’s down for most things, makes random dick jokes, and always says yes to “just one more” (episode, snack, or questionable decision).

I flex between being serious and reflective, and silly and curious (I love interviewing other women!), and sometimes I write about food and travel, books, and other things worth sharing.

I believe in strong opinions, wearing whatever TF you want, and aging like a weirdo with excellent taste.

I believe you can be kid-free and nurturing, a mom and a boss, ambitious and lazy, totally lost and crushing it.

I believe in unfollowing anyone who makes you feel like shit before breakfast and in leaving group chats without explanation.

This space is for women who are figuring it out, once again, for the 192398438437th time.

For women who are done pretending they’ve got it all together and are ready to compare chin hairs (or neck hairs, in my case) and cry-laugh over mediocre life choices and the general mess (and beauty) of it all.

I don’t have a five-step plan to change your life (or mine — I can barely remember all five steps), but I do have questionable taste in television, rogue life advice, and a growing list of things I no longer care about.

My work is reader-supported — show your love and stay in the know!

I’ll tell you what I’m loving, avoiding, both winning and failing at, and what I googled at 4:22 a.m. after waking up drenched in sweat.

I’ll confess, overshare, and be as real, raw, and honest as possible (with an occasional splash of humor, of course).

This is a place where we don’t chase perfection. We laugh loudly, swear occasionally, and do things our way.

Where ambition doesn’t cancel rest, and joy shows up looking like leftover Thai, brownies, a cold beer, and a canceled plan.

Where we can laugh about aging and entering midlife (and feel okay about it happening), swap recs on reading, travel, wellbeing, and more. Cry about caregiving for our aging parents (among other things), and toast to whatever version of womanhood you’ve chosen (or stumbled into).

I write for the women who are a little spicy, a little tender, and a little tired, but still showing up in your own fabulous, chaotic way.

Welcome.

We’re not doing it “right”; we’re doing it our way, because that’s way more fun.

Thanks for being here,

Alexis

P.S. Feel free to introduce yourself in the comments below or tell me what you’d add to this manifesto!