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Maybe It’s Not Menopause: Sleep Apnea in Women Over 50

The screening tools were built around men. Women get told it's hormones, then stress, then age.

by Sharon Brandwein

Confessions of a 64-Year-Old Vibrator Virgin

I thought I was done with sex. My doctor apparently hadn’t cleared that with my vagina.

After Congress, I Took the Wrong Job First

Rebuilding turned out to be harder than election night.

By Marie Newman

Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Menopause

Medicine studied men and assumed women were the same patient with inconvenient hormones. Now we’re paying the price—in our bone, heart, and brain health.

By MP Dunleavey

Is Catastrophizing a Mental State or a Secret Power Move?

Why catastrophizing feels like a superpower.

By Susan Dabbar

Social Security Counts Your Caregiving Years as Zero

Raise the kids, care for your parents, and pay for it every month of retirement. The fix keeps getting introduced in Congress. It never passes.

By Melanie Lockert

Are We on the Road to Gilead? Margaret Atwood Doesn’t Say No.

I thought The Handmaid’s Tale was a worst-case fantasy. Then I heard Atwood explain the history behind every turn.

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

Reinvention Doesn’t Fix Everything

Renée G. Pardo

I’m 57. Stop Calling Me Brave for Having a Life.

Nichelle Hickman

What If I’m Never a Grandmother?

Jennifer McGuire

I Heard a Violinist in Penn Station. Then I Heard My Parents.

Second born. Physician sacred calling 45 years. Nineteen kids some bio some adopted can remember which is which.

Grow up. Get excited. Give it all. Give out. Give up. Get over it. Get a new life.

Born an old soul. Abandonment issues most of my life. No longer settling or abandoning myself. Evolving. Manifesting.