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Stop Being So Damn Available: The Revolutionary Act of Going Quiet

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When was the last time you went completely off the grid? Not the “let me check one more email” kind of quiet. I mean the real deal—phone off, door closed, world on mute. If you’re squirming just thinking about it, we need to talk about solitude. Society has programmed women to be perpetually available. The […]

10 Years Later: From Coma to Comeback

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Today (April 18) is my 10-year anniversary. Not of my marriage nor of its demise after 37 years. Nor of my job—I ended that last October after 35 years at the same newspaper. I’d never thought of the day I almost died as the stuff of anniversary commemoration. But a week or two ago, the […]