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September 26, 2024
A Case for Thinking About Your Eyebrows
“As a fresh 50-year-old, I'm pretty well versed in the demographic. I have a lot of older clients, and I hear it all,” says brow expert Michele Holmes of Michele Holmes Studio. Holmes, who in a prior life had a career in the action sports industry, took her hobby of doing eyebrows professional in 2009.…

September 19, 2024
The Easiest Way to Travel with Kids
By Toby Rose Last fall break, I discovered that cruises are the ideal vacation for parents who are traveling solo with their kids. Yes, taking a cruise is so very basic — and not something any of my LA or NY friends would ever do — but sometimes it’s worth sacrificing cool points for ease.…

September 12, 2024
Why Are Women So Vulnerable to Shame?
In 2010, Melissa Petro was fired from her job as a New York City public-school teacher after the New York Post began a humiliation campaign against her for the sins of her prior life, which included being a sex worker. The headline read, “Bronx Teacher Admits: I’m An Ex-Hooker.” What followed was an intense crash…

September 5, 2024
How Women’s Dental Health Changes as We Age
Most of us are aware (in theory) that a good dental hygiene routine includes regular brushing, consistent flossing, and a biannual checkup. Less commonly known is the fact that women’s oral health needs evolve over the course of our lives. Rising estrogen and progesterone levels during puberty and pregnancy (or just being on birth control!)…

August 15, 2024
A Memoir About Mental Health and the Trials of Dating Men
By Leslie Price Everyone has a bad-relationship story, but in Men Have Called Her Crazy, Anna Marie Tendler fills an entire book with them. “Bad” is perhaps too banal a word for the behavior she describes — disappointing, coercive, damaging, and illegal also come to mind. Tendler’s memoir treads territory that feels familiar. It reminds…

August 8, 2024
The Controversial Treatment Supercharging Women’s Libidos
By Julie Alvin From the outside, Marcella Hill’s life looked good. At 38, she lived in Utah with her husband and four children, ages five to 15. The serial entrepreneur was writing a memoir about her spiritual awakenings, and delivering lectures to midlife women and entrepreneurs about how to find joy. But despite these external…

August 1, 2024
The Reality of Summer With Kids
By Evie Ebert June 17 was the first day that I’ve ever had to get three kids to three different places for the day, even though the youngest is 2.5 now. Before she started pre-K last September, she and my youngest kid were in daycare together. One destination. When she matriculated (lol) to daycare, she…

July 25, 2024
The True Crime Case More People Should Know
By Anne Roderique-Jones If you haven’t heard the story of 64-year-old Sandra Hemme, you’re not alone. Hemme is the longest-known wrongfully incarcerated woman in U.S. history. She was released last week. When I first came across this case, I was surprised to see so little media coverage about it. That fact alone was concerning. What…

July 17, 2024
Who Are These Photos For?
On a classically beautiful June day, I celebrated my birthday with friends, swimming in the sun and enjoying a delicious cake. That evening, fueled by the day's joy and love, I decided to lay in bed and write about my death.

July 11, 2024
The Affirming Power of a Sexy Photo Shoot
I don't know how I came up with the idea to do a boudoir shoot. I was living in northwest Arkansas in a quaint city called Bentonville, which is Walmart's hometown.

July 3, 2024
What You Need To Know About Hormones and Hair Loss
When men start losing their hair, they have the option to bite the bullet, buzz it all off, and, at least in theory, join the “bald hottie” ranks populated by the likes of Tyrese Gibson, Stanley Tucci, and Jason Statham.

June 27, 2024
Is “Making It” a Myth?
In late 2021, journalist Samhita Mukhopadhyay made an astute observation in her essay for The Cut: The Girlboss is Dead, Long Live The Girlboss. In it, she captured the downfall of an era, that for a brief time, held so many of us in a chokehold:
