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Over the holidays, I found one of my old journals from 2012/2013. I turned to a page that had “My Fears” written across the top. Beneath it, I scribbled, “I'm so afraid of being alone for the rest of my life.

Last year, when she was 48, Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist Noosha Niv married her longtime partner in a cave near Playa del Carmen.

“I’m feeling so unearthed,” a friend says to me over the phone. “I just found out I have to be out of my apartment in four days.”

Ten months ago, PIX11 news anchor Tamsen Fadal asked her bosses if she could cut back on her anchoring duties. Instead of anchoring from 4pm to 7pm plus the 10pm newscasts daily, she would only do the first three hours of live television.

Over the past four decades, studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have consistently found that very few women are willing to label themselves “voluntarily childless”: 6 percent in 2017, up just slightly from 4.9 percent in 1982.

Last summer I fell in love with a woman. This sounds like an unremarkable fact on its own. But it was remarkable — I was a straight, 34-year-old, married woman who’d never even had a same-gender crush.

Most face creams don’t really deliver on their marketing promises. In fact, they under-deliver. This is not the case with fluorouracil, which arguably punches way, way above what its simple, clinical-looking tube might suggest.

Just as much as you’re going to grow and change, it makes sense that your wants and expectations of your friendships will grow and change as well.

As a teen in the early aughts, my “period management” came down to choosing between tampons or pads at CVS and trying not to worry about TSS.

By my mid-30s, I'd resigned myself to a life without satisfying sex. As far as I could tell, great sex was a thing some women had that eluded me, like clear skin and effortless style.

Public health researcher Arline T. Geronimus wrote the book Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society years after she coined the term “weathering” to explain how constant, long-term stress brought on by discrimination prematurely ages and sickens people in marginalized groups.

When Girls debuted on HBO in 2012, I was 45 years old and was, I’ll admit it, kind of mesmerized.