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Seeing The Odyssey Made Me Realize I Was a Calypso

Why some women confuse being needed with being loved, and what it takes to break the pattern.

by Blair Glaser

When Everyone You Love Is a Blue Dot

Aging parents may need us to step in. Adult children need us to back off. Somehow, we’re supposed to know which is which.

By Dr. Gayle MacBride

The Older I Get, the Heller the No

I thought getting older would make saying no easier. Saying it was never the hard part.

By Chantrise Sims Holliman

We Put a Skincare Brand in the Hands of 12 PROVOKED Women for Three Months. Here’s What Happened.

Adipeau says its approach to aging skin starts somewhere most skincare doesn’t. We wanted to know what would happen when real women tried it.

By Susan Dabbar

Book Club Drama

Book Club Drama: Strangers Episode 6

Book Club Drama is a fictional series about a real thing: what actually happens when smart, opinionated, hilarious women try to read the same book at the same time.

By Judy Rothman Rofé

Should Your Vaginal Estrogen Double as Skincare?

The internet says yes. Dermatologists say stay below the belt.

By Michele Ross

The Women Are in Your Kitchen. The Men Own the Building.

Same fame, same platform, two completely different destinations. How the culinary world decided that women feed people and men build empires.

By Jennifer Green

My Madonna-Byrd Complex: One Fought Time. One Didn’t.

Two sex-positive icons of my youth, now 67 and 70. Watching them age sent me looking for a third option.

By Blair Glaser

No One Warned You About Pelvic Organ Prolapse. There’s a Reason.

One in four women over 40 has it. The medical system has known about it since ancient Egypt and still treats it like a secret.

By Julie Stewart

I Finally Understand Why My Grandma Hoarded Ketchup Packets

She drove a Cadillac, washed paper plates, and was the most financially sophisticated person I’ve ever known.

The Hormone Heist: The Headlines That Cost a Generation of Women

For a quarter century, women have been scared away from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) that could’ve protected their bones, their sleep, their minds, and their sense of themselves.

By Susan Dabbar

Your Money, Your Values, Your Advisor—In That Order

You’re not underprepared for investing; you’re not being heard. Here’s how to find the right financial advisor—one who works for you.

By Kristin Hull

Be Fierce. Stay in the Chair.

The world will give you every reason to go numb. I nearly did. Here is what I’m choosing instead and what it costs to keep choosing it.

By Linda Wattier

The Weight of What We Inherited

Paula Strupeck Gardner

I Chose This Life. Why Am I Apologizing?

Jolie Laide Saved Me Once. Can It Save Me Again?

The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Clothes On

You all have nice teeth wish I could have afforded to keep mine empty spaces in my mouth

Best life now, worth the wait. Learning. Teaching. Making new memories, and reliving old, good ones. Happiness counts.

A penguin born to lions escaped into books until she could travel for real and discover worlds within.