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By Susan Solomon Yem One of the first questions my attorney asked when I initiated divorce proceedings was whether I wanted to reclaim my maiden name or keep the name I took at our wedding. Without hesitation, I said I would keep my married name. It was for one reason only – to have the…

By Lisa McCarty In her posthumous memoir An Unexpected Life, which hit shelves Tuesday, Gloria Steinem talks about the difficult experience of being the sole caretaker to her mother, Ruth, starting at age ten. As a young girl, Steinem did the grocery shopping and prepared meals alone. “She couldn’t always take care of herself. It…

By Holland Sweet I have done some stupid things in my life. But recently I’ve begun to wonder if taking up golf at sixty might be the stupidest of all. How it All Started (Blame My Friend Nancy) My father tried to introduce me to golf when I was a teenager. This is the same…

By Laura BarcellaI know that seeking out community is important. I just don’t want to.  I’ve never been much of a joiner. I’m an introvert who prefers hanging out with Netflix and my cats. But I’ve always been deeply sustained by close friendships, and growing up, I had a lot of them. Now, in mid-life,…

By Denise K. James  Recently, an advertisement stopped me mid-scroll on Instagram. It was colorful and featured what looked like a piece of candy, and it asked if I suffered from performance anxiety. If so, a product from “Kick” could offer relief wrapped in stylish packaging.  It seemed like good timing. I was preparing to…

By Laura NorkinIs anyone sleeping well right now? Based upon the amount of sleep supplements that have entered the market recently, the answer is no. The demand is understandable: Sleep heals us, restores us, and when it’s not happening, we’ll reach for just about anything that could help. Identifying the cause of your sleeplessness can…

By Jill E. Duffy Lorilyn Alden's breasts had always been on the large side, D or DD, but they hadn't interfered with her life. In her early 20s, she had a baby, breastfed, and after, her chest shrank to a C. Then she had a second child, her breasts swelled to triple Gs, and they…

BY Julia Craven Peptides are having a moment. They’re on your feed, in your group chats, and, increasingly, in unlabeled vials people buy from an obscure WhatsApp number and inject at home. The pitch is intoxicating: cutting-edge science is being shot straight into your body, helping you sleep better, build more muscle, lose weight, and…

By Laura Norkin Kristina Wright, of Richmond, VA, married young and was positive she didn’t want kids. “People would say, ‘you gotta have them,’ but I would see that they were not necessarily the happiest people in the world,” she says. And on her husband’s Navy salary, they couldn’t really afford it. When an unplanned…

By Holland Sweet Belle Burden's bestselling memoir Strangers has struck a nerve. The book follows the sudden collapse of Burden's 20-year marriage after a tip-off about her husband's affair — and his announcement the next day that he was walking away from her and their kids. What has readers gripped, though, is his financial betrayal.…

By Caroline Hatchett  In the Met’s current Costume Institute exhibition, Costume Art, the museum pairs works from its permanent collection with clothing as commentary on the dressed human form. Within the new Condé M. Nast Galleries, the show is subdivided by body types as social construct: the naked and nude body; the classical body of…

By Julia Craven Kerry Krauss didn’t take the decision to start a GLP-1 lightly. She exercises regularly. She eats nutritious, whole foods. She’s trained for and run marathons. And she became prediabetic anyway. Krauss wore a continuous glucose monitor to try to find a solution. In spite of her best efforts, her fasting glucose levels…