A Galentine’s Day for the Books
If you buy through our links, we may earn a small commission—never at extra cost to you. We review everything we recommend. Scroll past the glitter-covered travel mugs and heart-shaped plushies and instead gift your besties something they want to curl up with: A good book. I’ve long believed the best Valentine’s Day-adjacent holiday is […]
Profits Over Patients?
Lithium’s been elevated from taboo to wonder cure for cognitive decline. What other breakthroughs are we missing because Big Pharma focuses on the next big thing? Forget biotech moonshots. The newest hope for Alzheimer’s disease prevention and reversal isn’t a billion-dollar drug, it’s the mineral lithium. Yep, that one. Potentially explosive in lithium-ion batteries, but […]
My Coping Superpower: Finding Humor in the Darkness
There’s Nothing Funny About Illness, Grief, or Loss. Except the Parts That Are. I’m in Philly FaceTiming with my sister Sue in Florida. She’s at Memory Care packing up our mother’s belongings and looking for an outfit to bury her in. This is no small task, given the devolution of her wardrobe from cute Chico’s […]
The 10-3-2-1 Sleep Method: A Middle-Aged Woman’s Countdown to Sanity
No gadgets, no apps, no supplements—just a back-to-basics formula that might finally help you sleep through the night. 2:47 a.m. Wide awake again. My husband snores peacefully next to me (after taking a full three minutes to fall asleep, I might add) and I lie awake mentally reviewing next week’s menu and rehearsing what I […]
Hold the Next Act—I’m Taking an Intermission
Forget the reinvention memoirs and mountaintop goat yoga for now. Sometimes midlife isn’t about a comeback, it’s about catching your breath. I’ve recently been informed—mostly by targeted ads, glossy articles featuring women doing goat yoga on a mountaintop, and lifestyle “gurus”—that I’m supposed to be entering my “Second Act.” You know what I’m talking about. […]
I’m A Dietitian Who Ate Nuts Every Day for a Month. Here’s What Really Happened.
As a dietitian, I tell women to eat more nuts. Then I put myself to the test—and discovered what science doesn’t always say about cravings and aging. What happens when a dietitian takes her own advice? I decided to find out by challenging myself to eat one serving of nuts every day for 30 days. […]
My Own Bedroom Was Just the Start: Selfhood and Autonomy Inside Marriage
At 2:00 a.m. on a Tuesday, I realized the real problem wasn’t my husband’s snoring—it was me disappearing. I reached over, poked him in the arm, and asked him to turn over. Yet again. Thirty seconds later, I grabbed my pillows, walked upstairs to the guest room, and—for the first time in 26 years—chose myself. […]
When Grief Becomes Content
Mourning In the Digital Age I became a widow nearly 12 years ago. Hours after my husband died, I posted a photo of him on social media. In lieu of answering the many heartfelt calls, texts, and emails my daughter and I received, that post was the easiest way for me to share the hardest […]
Let’s Retire From Giving Your Time Away
Women over 50 have been the world’s unpaid goodwill economy. Here’s how to start collecting. Payback is a b*tch, and honestly? So is being told to “pay it forward” when women have already been paying out like human ATMs for decades. American women perform nearly 76 percent of total hours of unpaid care work—labor valued […]
The 5 Stages of Surviving Customer Service Hell
They want us to give up. Instead, we turn hold music into a masterclass in endurance. There are few things in life that unite women across all backgrounds, cultures, and tax brackets quite like the soul-crushing experience of trying to contact customer service. It doesn’t matter what the issue is—internet’s down, credit card approved a […]
Refriending a Midlife Friendship: Can You Go Back?
When a deep connection derails, do you walk—or try again? One woman shares the raw truth of finding her way back. I fell for Martine not at first sight, but at first sound. Her accent? Parisian. Her laugh? Rumbly. Waiting for a seminar to start, I eavesdropped shamelessly as the woman behind me told her […]
Flatulence Gets a Glow-Up: Welcome to the Fart Walk Era
What used to be shameful is now a wellness trend with benefits for your gut, blood sugar, and sanity. Booty bombs, toots, cheek squeaks, or heinie hiccups. Church it up all you want, but a fart is still a fart. Kids find them endlessly hilarious, men take them in stride, and women have been trying […]
