Allyson Felix is just like any other mom. That probably sounds laughable — not many mothers can say they’ve won 11 medals as an Olympic athlete. But when the retired track and field star talks about her life raising 6-year-old Camryn and 1-year-old Trey with husband Kenneth Ferguson, it’s hard not to feel like we’re...
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Parenting In Midlife Is A Nonstop Nostalgia Trip
Jonatan Fernstrom/Connect Images/Getty Images A familiar scene: you’re walking through the mall trying to meet up with your friends, shopping bags in tow. And, across the way, walking in the other direction, you see your mom. She’s waving to you frantically. Omg, you want to hide. As a woman in midlife, I’ve now been on...
What It Was Like To Rewatch 'Friends' With My Tween Daughter
Monica and Rachel were fighting over who got the last condom. They stood in the bathroom, playing rock paper scissors, as Richard and Ross waited outside of their girlfriends’ respective bedrooms. The studio audience roared with laughter and I smiled, too, as much at the familiarity of a Friends episode as at the dialogue. Then...