Five Reasons Holidays Stress Me Out
Holidays are supposed to be “free” days that you spend doing something wonderful, right? Well, not for me. I find myself terrified by past experiences where stereotypical female skills were…
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Laugh Me a Rivers
The news about Joan Rivers’ medically induced coma makes me sad. Perhaps there is a part of me that hopes somebody, anybody, will outrun illness and death. That Betty White will be accepting…
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Do I Still Have the Energy for a Feminism Reboot?
I have been discouraged as of late by young girls who hate the word “feminism.” Apparently, when they hear that word they see their mothers and grandmothers burning bras, and…
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Got the Menopausal Blues? Listen to this Bird!
I woke up after a night of sweating that a high school wrestler would envy, only to realize that I had gained several pounds. I got out of bed to get…
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Some Life Events Seem So Much More Beautiful in Retrospect
I love the power of rose-colored glasses. You know, when we sit in our mental rocking chairs and look back over a time in our lives without remembering any of…
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