Tara Moore/DigitalVision/Getty Images I am a middle-aged woman. I’m thinking about being in the middle of everything now. I am in the middle of perimenopause, which is finally having a moment in the zeitgeist but I will tell you this: don’t believe the hype. It’s wildly overrated. I was hoping perimenopause would leave me feeling...
Dzonsli/E+/Getty Images I don’t know if you’re on the corner of TikTok where people are complaining about uninvolved grandparents, but it seems there’s a whole lot of Millennial and Gen Z parents lamenting the fact that, unlike their own grandparents, their parents don’t seem terribly interested in helping with or even coming to visit their...
Narisara Nami/Moment/Getty Images The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, serving approximately 41 million low-or-no-income people. Nearly half (44%) are children. In fact, approximately a quarter of all children in the United States rely on SNAP benefits to meet nutritional needs. But that may change if congressional Republicans succeed...
STasker/Getty Images When I left, I didn’t take much. Some clothes for Joey and me. My toothbrush, my makeup. And Sundae, tail wagging, clueless to the life we were leaving behind. I thought maybe there would be a conversation later — some objection, some claim to her. But there wasn’t. Instead, when I returned the...