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Untangling the Honey Plot

Honey is one of the most highly adulterated foods we buy. Here’s what may be hiding in the bear, and how to find the real thing.

by Larissa Zimberoff

Broadway Is Having a Very Good Fall

The best of Broadway this fall 2026, from Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Allison Janney, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hiddleston, and Dolly. Seven shows worth knowing about, whether you have tickets to New York or not.

By Susan Dabbar

She Used to Love to Swim. So Did I.

A stranger tried to tell me who she once was. I took her rug and walked away.

By Lauren Spencer

The Emmys Had Mariska Hargitay—and Didn’t Know What to Do With Her

Fifteen years ago, they did this to Jane Lynch. Monday, they did it to Mariska Hargitay.

By Susan Dabbar

The Houses We Kept

She kept her family home for 36 years. It took a blackout—and the neighbor next door—to help her finally come home.

By Giannella M. Garrett

Your Bones Start to Weaken at Menopause. Why Are We Waiting Until 65 to Look?

Screening guidelines are built around when fractures become more likely, not when women are losing bone fastest.

By Julia Savacool

Apparently, We Have Food to Waste

Our grandmothers saved everything because they had to. We were raised in abundance.

By Laura Fraser

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

I Was Ready for It to End. Then It Did.

Bomb Shelters, Brides, and Resilience in a War Zone

The Weight of What We Inherited

Paula Strupeck Gardner

I Chose This Life. Why Am I Apologizing?

On bad days, regret devours me. On good days, I’m everyone’s best friend, hopelessly in love with humanity.

After the sadness fades there’s survival, peace, happiness, love, happy shiny future ahead! Time to do it all.

I travel someplace new on every birthday: unfamiliar landscapes, ancient recipes, unexpected art—fireworks for both brain and heart.