You Are All Invited to My 50th Birthday Party in Amsterdam

Jennifer Barnett
11 min readOct 16, 2020

The uplifting power of magical thinking during bleak times

These are dark times. We need something to look forward to. You are all invited to my 50th birthday party in Amsterdam. Please start planning now.

I turn 50 on January 5th, 2022. Because January is a crappy month to be in The Netherlands, I’m also going to have a 50th birthday…

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Jennifer Barnett

Former managing editor of The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, Redbook, and Elle. Now I’m writing. Expat in Amsterdam.