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You can’t attend every ceremony as your friends’ kids get hitched—or as their parents pass away. Here, how to decide when to go, when to skip....
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You can’t attend every ceremony as your friends’ kids get hitched—or as their parents pass away. Here, how to decide when to go, when to skip....
After 25 years of marriage and four children, Katrina Anne Willis left her husband for a woman. Was she crazy to hope they could still be family?...
Making new friends after 50 is a challenge. Here's how Meredith Maran, alone in a new city, dug in and developed a whole batch of besties....
For Mother's Day, we return to a favorite essay that contemplates a mother's true legacy, which could come as a complete surprise....
When Amy Appleton's children left for college, a Jane Goodall video provided an unexpected example of how to handle the loss....
We're re-running this lovely short story because of its timely mother–daughter theme and to remind you there's still time to enter our current contest...
NextTribe offers small group travel experiences for women aged 45 and beyond. Our travelers are active and adventurous, open to meeting other women. If you want the benefits of traveling solo with the connection of a traveling community, you belong on a NextTribe trip.
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Not only has Najwa Klostermann seen much of the world in the past couple of years, she's made a lot of good friends along the way. ...
Japan had long been at the top of Tammy Cox's must-see list. When she finally traveled there she was moved by the people who "make loveliness an art."...
When Dawn Janáček took a work assignment in India, she was going for the adventure. She came back with so much more. ...
The physical demands of a trip--even a relatively quiet one--can be daunting as we get older. Here's how to prepare and when to start. ...
Jetlagged in a strange neighborhood in Santiago, Pam LeBlanc let down her guard. Here's what she did wrong and how you can avoid the same passport-less ...
On NextTribe's Greece trip to Greece, we'll meet goddesses galore in Athens, Hydra and other islands. Their stories challenge the patriarchy--then and n...
No filters erasing every wrinkle, no 22-year-olds pretending to know what a "girls' trip" means at our age — just women who've actually lived it....

How a Michigan therapist and lifelong observer of the natural world took the photo that thrilled our judges. ...
More than a million Americans crossed the border for healthcare last year. Here’s what one of them found....
The swankiest suite and the scruffiest budget room have exactly one thing in common: you will spend your first hours there completely baffled....
What to do if your job has been the organizing principle of your life for 33 years? You escape to South America to keep your sense of wonder alive. ...
On a mother-daughter trip in Ireland, Jennifer McGaha contemplates letting go--of an adult daughter leaving the nest and of a dear friend who had recen...
By night, she's a bass player. By day, she fights sex trafficking. Any chance she gets, she's a traveler--now a NextTribe traveler. ...
The companion side of every great trip is a quiet inventory of things that didn't make it home — and what we learned from losing them....