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By Leslie Price Every article I read about health and sleep includes the following message: Sleep is important. Did you know? If you don’t get enough sleep, horrible things will happen to you. Oh, and also: Don’t stress about sleep. Because stress is also bad for you. But not as bad as not sleeping. So…

By Jill E. Duffy The first time Jude Treder-Wolff's friend Maddie (not her real name) was diagnosed with cancer, she fought it, went into remission, and was pronounced cancer-free. Treder-Wolff was with her throughout the journey. The two first met as colleagues, but became very close and remained that way for more than a decade.…

By Mindy Isser The algorithm knows I am a 35-year-old woman. It knows I am a mother with disposable income. It either knows, or just assumes, I’m worried about my appearance. Each day there’s a new ad or Reel or post targeting my millennial-specific insecurities: the new lines next to my eyes and mouth, the…

By Holland Sweet After a tumultuous year negotiating a divorce from my husband of thirty years, I was ready for the next chapter. Two days before the hearing, my attorney asked if I was going to change my marital name from “Burt” back to my maiden name “Sweet."  I was stumped. That question brought me…

By Jill E. Duffy Eat two cups of beans every day for 30 days. That's the basic challenge, and it's supposed to make you feel really, really good. Any kind of beans will do, and you can eat them at any time of day. You can eat other food, as you normally would, and it's…

By Denise K. James For decades, everyone gathered at my grandmother’s house for Christmas. We lost her in 2020, but not much has changed. We still eat my grandmother’s breakfast casserole – now made by my sister – before opening gifts, as well as her dinner side dishes.  Every Christmas Eve unfolds with the same…

By Carita Rizzo This is the era of a solution for every skin problem. Wrinkles? Reach for retinol. Melasma? Brighten your skin with niacimide. Generally feeling dull? Nothing a little ascorbic acid can’t fix. But these treatments can create another skin problem, one that’s particularly pernicious: dermatitis.  “I see it every day,” says Dr. Tyler…

By Jill E. Duffy The frenzy started a little over a decade ago. It was 2012, and I was working as a technology product reviewer. Brand after brand would email to tell me about their health and fitness products. Would I like to test and write about a new pedometer that connects to a smart…

By Leslie Price It took a family crisis for Marni Blank to realize that, for all her type-A tendencies, she had been avoiding planning for – or even thinking about – her or her parents’ end of life. But pushing off the uncomfortable meant she was forced to figure it out on the fly and…

By Carita Rizzo “Have you tried lube?” an OBGYN once asked me, in all earnestness, when presented with my long-standing issue of painful intercourse. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. After dealing with discomfort for two decades, being faced with the doctor version of, “Have you tried restarting your phone?” wasn’t reassuring.  For…

By Kara StevensLast October, I woke up to a flurry of texts in the middle of the night in Ghana from my older cousin Renee in New York, who had received word from another cousin, Trevor in California, that my estranged father, who lived thousands of miles away from all of us, in Antigua, was…

By Liz Krieger  I came back to tennis five years ago after a 25-year hiatus. It was one of those things I had loved intensely as a teenager and then just... didn't. When I joined a local USTA team, I walked into something I didn't expect: the most age-diverse, body-diverse group I'd belonged to in…