I became dead set on getting a belly button ... hole marking my navel piercing remained, and so did my urge to replace it. “Well, you’re in your 30s now,” my husband would say, “maybe ...

Second to a lower-back tattoo depicting the sun cradled by a crescent moon, a belly button ring was the coolest body-modification trend of the ’90s and early aughts. Take it from me, an elder ...