THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026 INSIDE LIFE We Engineered Loneliness and Called It Convenience REINVENTION I Wasn’t Ready to Be the Woman Who Only Gets Asked About Her Dog DEAR READER Why I Boycott Pink—Even as a Breast Cancer Survivor CULTURE Critics Called Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette a Bonbon. They Were Wrong. Good morning, Yesterday was my 43rd wedding anniversary. Same guy, 43 years. In a life that has included 33 moves, nuclear submarines, Disney, a poker table, and five businesses, he...

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026 INSIDE CULTURE Thin Is for Sale Now. Guess Who Gets Blamed for Not Buying It? WELLNESS The Wet Truth: I Tried 13 Lubes and These Were the Best DEAR READER I Was Paid to Amplify Other People’s Voices. Mine Had to Wait. HUMOR Take Your 'Hon' and Shove It Good morning, Saturday morning, I stood in a pumpkin patch with my whole family, including both grandsons, an apple cider donut in one hand and a fistful of funnel cake in the other, powdered sugar down my front. It...

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026 INSIDE CULTURE Who Named Your Vagina? HUMOR The 7 Deadly Sins of Trader Joe’s DEAR READER Stop Asking Me How My Retirement Is Going LIFE I Turned 51 and Somehow Became the Man of My Dreams Good morning, October always feels like a shift. Summer is officially over, the year suddenly feels shorter, and there's a lot going on in the world that deserves our attention. I've been thinking about what it means to get loud, get angry, and get involved. And I keep coming back...

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 INSIDE WELLNESS Untangling the Honey Plot CULTURE Broadway Is Having a Very Good Fall DEAR READER I Was Ready for It to End. Then It Did. LIFE She Used to Love to Swim. So Did I. Good morning, Tuesday, I sat in a room listening to some of the smartest women in media talk about what comes next. The panel was hosted by Ms. magazine, and one message came through loud and clear: women are going to need independent media. At the end, I raised my hand, introduced myself...

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 INSIDE WELLNESS Your Bones Start to Weaken at Menopause. Why Are We Waiting Until 65 To Look? CULTURE Apparently, We Have Food to Waste LIFE The Houses We Kept DEAR READER Bomb Shelters, Brides, and Resilience in a War Zone Good morning, This week's story about bone density was supposed to run last week. We pulled it because new information had come out days earlier. Some of the data deserved another look. So three editors, including me, went back through it with...

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 INSIDE CAREGIVING The Big Sisters Are Tired CULTURE Seeing The Odyssey Made Me Realize I Was a Calypso LIFE When Everyone You Love Is a Blue Dot DEAR READER The Weight of What We Inherited Good morning, There's something about the week after Labor Day that always feels like a reset. Maybe it's years of school calendars, but September still feels more like the beginning of something than January ever does. You may notice that PROVOKED looks a little different this...