“A Prolonged Spring Cleaning” and Other Poems for the Sequester Season
What's on your spring cleaning list? If you're like Carol Flake Chapman, you've discovered that with more time to mull over it, there are more spaces th...
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What's on your spring cleaning list? If you're like Carol Flake Chapman, you've discovered that with more time to mull over it, there are more spaces th...
We're publishing stories from readers on how they're coping through the pandemic. Marcellina Kampa tells us the ritual she and her husband started and h...
Our world has been turned upside down, and we know you're as anxious and confused as we are. Please tell us how you're managing. Sharing our experiences...
When her unfaithful husband asked for a divorce, she felt her life was over. Working through self-destructive behavior, Patty Blue Hays has re-created h...
In spite of, or maybe because of, all the bad news coming our way, it's important to look for the positive. Here are 7 blessings, large and small, our r...
At times like these poetry can propel us to look at our experience in a whole new light. Here is Carol Flake Chapman tribute to all of us cooped up and ...
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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....
Their marriages ended at the same time. So Elena Seibert and a friend found healing and a new beginning over 8 days of grueling hiking in the Alps. ...
The shoes you wear on your travels can make or break your experience. Here we select 16 of the best styles--from loafers to sandals and more. ...
After her daughter left home, Jessica Seiders started traveling to fill the empty space. Only when the pandemic forced her to stop moving did that truly...
Travel experts and researchers have landed on a remarkably specific consensus: the best years for travel are roughly 50 to 75....
Sick of seeing tiny teenage models in bathing suit ads? Us too. Here, 11 styles worn by REAL women—NextTribers on vacation. Plus, two other swim essen...