How to stop settling in life for busy moms: honest answers for Short Hills

A lot of people in Short Hills describe their life the same way: "fine." Good routines, nothing on fire. But recognizing when "fine" has quietly become the enemy of more — and that is the conversation nobody starts at dinner. Let's start it here.

And this is Short Hills: a New York-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday. Which is exactly why this question lands differently here than anywhere else.

The giveaways of grateful-but-stuck

The Short Hills walk test

You don't have to blow up a good life to build a bigger one. You just have to stop calling the plateau 'peace.'

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