by Sarah Gold | May 29, 2021
When the distinctive guitar riff suddenly throbbed from my countertop speakers, I was at my kitchen sink, innocently washing asparagus. It was a sonic blast from my long-ago past (and the deep archives of my iPod library): the twangy opening cadence of the B-52s’...
by Janet Siroto | Apr 29, 2021
The country is opening up again. People are stumbling out of quarantines and social bubbles like cave dwellers into the sun. Among the many questions about how people will adjust to a post-pandemic world is what will happen to the midlife divorce rate, which has been...
by Christine Grillo | Mar 26, 2021
In the late 1960s, when I was a newlywed, my mother-in-law told me what seemed like a quaint story about how her parents helped her out when she got divorced. She was a single mother of three, without any college or professional skills. She didn’t even have a...
by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 19, 2021
A few years ago, my three best friends from college and I were near the end of a 10-hour hike on the Appalachian Trail last October. And almost at the end of our ropes, frankly. We had climbed 1,500 vertical feet in the morning and then spent several hours winding our...
by Densie Webb | Mar 19, 2021
How many times have you heard these statements? And how many times have you scoffed at them, even just a little? “Age is just a number.” “You’re only as old as you feel.” “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.” They may feel like empty bromides...