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My Only Advice Recently, my 28-year-old daughter called me seeking counsel on the state of her love life: How do I know if the person I’m...
SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On, by Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs “The...
If you can reframe the intention behind her wish not as excluding you, but as including him, you can refocus on the strength of your own...
Tenderness and Grit A close friend died in 1999. After her funeral, grief’s full weight incapacitated me. My boyfriend led me into our cramped apartment bathroom...
Finding the Fun Mom, a former physicist, had a hard day with her dementia. She opened Zoom two hours early, asking repeatedly when her prayer meeting...
Finding the Fun Mom, a former physicist, had a hard day with her dementia. She opened Zoom two hours early, asking repeatedly when her prayer meeting...
Kids need empathy alongside parental limits, and what you’re responding to with your stepdaughter is that this balance seems out of whack. By your account, your...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow One of the first things Jay told me was, “I love your hair.” It was 1995, and it was inky black from...
When Samaiya Mushtaq was growing up, she imagined marrying a kind Muslim man, and at 21, she did. But while studying to become a psychiatrist in...
